Sitting with Sally
(5-haiku poem)
Sitting with Sally
After moments of madness
Then freedom from fear
Sitting quietly
Our hearts and minds are settled
The soul is nourished
Stillness saturates
Every tissue with comfort
Our world is at peace
It feels like being
In a deep meditation
Too silent to speak
Fulfilling moments
Just resting here together
And we are thankful
© Ken Chawkin
April 9-13+16+18, 2011
Fairfield, Iowa
Also see An Unwanted Guest and Two Love Tanka.
I wrote an earlier poem, Rage Against the Disease, but never posted it.
Aside from deleting a few repetitive words over a few days of writing this poem, and moving them around, a last entry, the first stanza/haiku, turned out to be an honest expression and addition to this now 5-haiku poem, and sets it up more realistically, and therefore more powerfully. Who knows, there may be yet another stanza that shows up, but for now, this is how it reads.
The Uncarved Blog 
June 30, 2017 at 2:03 am |
[…] and we both laughed. Early on, when she was going through neurological imbalances that affected her mental stability, I remember saying, “It’s so intense, Sal, what you’re going through, but look at […]
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October 1, 2017 at 11:42 pm |
I love this poem and want to post it on Facebook if I may. I could post a link.
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October 1, 2017 at 11:44 pm |
Please do! Those earlier days in her illness were intense. It was a long journey together, but it concluded in a very peaceful way. I will always celebrate who Sali was, to Maharishi, the Movement, and to me. Jai Guru Dev. See https://theuncarvedblog.com/2016/12/28/an-early-attempt-at-some-kind-of-closure-with-a-poem-on-salis-passing-and-auspicious-times/ and https://theuncarvedblog.com/2017/06/30/for-us-a-tanka-honoring-sali-and-what-we-shared/.
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