20210505 - Numerous Leaves

Disoriented.\ Take time to regain bearings,\ the next direction.

#HAIKUPRAJNA - Numerous Leaves

These poems are based on "Spear-thrower", the story I wrote for "NaNoWriMo" which I had based on the "Inktober" prompts from 2020. The story and poems will be featured as a future edition of The HaikuPrajna Collection. The first draft can be read through the link at the top of the page.

"SM-SARA, Poems and Other Stories", the latest HaikuPrajna Collection, is available on Amazon in Paperback and on Kindle Unlimited:  https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B08Y3XFSH5

Information can be found in the link at the top of the page, along with more poetry and stories to read like "Hector Blake"!

Thank you for reading.

Until next time,

Allen W. McLean

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20210501

Loss becomes lessons,\ leaving beautiful places,\ departures lessened.

Transformed Memories

We have been coping with a loss in the family this week. Finding it difficult to write something new that encapsulates something that, for me, is cemented in the past, also to write an online eulogy as a way to pay respect to those memories. I enjoy thinking about the memories, so capturing them through some form of art and\or sharing them with loved ones is how I am dealing with this incredible difficulty. 

Here's a part from "Spearthrower", the rough draft of "Fishing for Caribou";

Barb said, “We grieve because of the loss of an opportunity to exchange information, but the change is natural, and our grief transforms into a lesson that lessens our suffering. My father lives on, as we speak, through our mourning of him. He has changed and has not simply disappeared. While I mourn for what I have lost, I have learned where it can be found. Therefore, my loss has changed, too, into something more alike to departing from a beautiful place than the permanent loss of a material object.”

Otherwise at a loss for words.

Thank you. I love you. Always and forever will be part of me, like the rest of my loved ones.

Allen and April.