Maybe it’s a kind of wisdom that comes with age, because over the years, most of what I’ve worried about didn’t come to be. Or, maybe it’s the song my mom used to sing to us when we were children, “Que Sera.”
Maybe it’s both. All I know is, even with the plethora of things to worry about these days, my attitude is usually, “Whatever will be, will be.”
It’s amazing how freeing that can be.
So, my Day 20 haiku is a kind of tribute to my mom, and to the song she always used to sing to us. I used to sing it to my kids and now, sing it to my grandchildren, too.
Do you have a song you can condense to a haiku? Maybe a haiku about how you relieve stress or worry? Actually, counting syllables is, in itself, a stress relief. After all, how can you worry if you’re counting syllables? 🙂
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New to writing haiku? Here’s the pattern:
Three lines with a total of seventeen syllables:
5 syllables
7 syllables
5 syllables
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Your mother smiling
Your visage reflecting hers
Positivism
So pretty, Robb. I especially like how you captured five syllables in one word for the last line!