Sensational Haiku Wednesday

Welcome to “Sensational Haiku Wednesday!”

Click here for info and background on this weekly event!

The basics:

Haiku is simple! It is 3 non-rhyming lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively (a great way to use your fingers!)

This week’s theme is: Joy

Almost one hundred
Loving family, sorrow
Joy for having been

A life well spent; loved
Ready for the new chapter
Leaving it behind

Great grandmother, true
Best grandmother, mom, Mamie
Well loved, and long missed

Joyous life, well lived
Close and loving family
Joy for life well spent

My favourite Grandmother passed away yesterday. It wasn’t unexpected; she was just 3 months shy of her 100th birthday, and has been failing for quite some time. When I chose this week’s word – “Joy” – I certainly didn’t know what this week would be bringing to me, but… it’s ok. I choose to celebrate her life rather than mourn her – she knew how loved she was, and that it was high time for her to go and be with my grandfather. Living in the nursing home this past year was no kind of life at all, even though my mother was there daily, and we visited often. I’m sure wherever they are, they’re very happy to be together again. They are both equally missed, and loved… and they know it.

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Next week’s theme: Living

Note: Nothing makes me happier than to see new people getting “hooked on haiku”! Keep it going to make it to the Hooked on Haiku List (if you’re not listed and should be, please let me know!)

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