Thought Prints

  Carpe Diem Haiku Kai #1360: New Life New Life, Spring Is Here I am writing this even though the time to join the Kai postings has passed.  Need to get back into my writing habits! pushing from the womb new life emerges  amid the pain © petra domina May the world emerge with new life as many nations suffer the pains of growth.

 Son gave me the gift of a writing course.  This is an online course and I have never really taken any sort of writing course.  Never.  I am 75 and this course is attempting to teach an old dog new tricks.  Here is the last session's subject.  Description of one's self.  The result is and ASSIGNMENT:  use imagery to describe your personal state of being. The example given was a description written by Frank Kafka.  " A picture of my existence... would show a useless wooden stake covered in snow... stuck loosely at a slant in the ground in a ploughed field on the edge of a vast open plain on a dark winter night." A picture of my existence... would show a dusty whirlwind moving across the cornfield ready for harvest... filled with all it touched... surrounded by sunshine... revolutions slowing down toward its dissipation...  ending as quickly as it began. I read this to Hubby.  He has been at my side for over 55 years counting the time of 'courting'.  He said it