3 Haiku Published at Whispers & Echoes Magazine!
I am happy to share three of my haiku, Past, Generations, and Recovery, are published at Whispers and Echoes Magazine, as part of their ‘haiku on healing’ curation.
Whispers and Echoes revels in small tales and smaller poems that offer a glimpse of the whole. In this series, healing takes on many forms and guises but remains this: steps to recovery.
People like to advise, talk, and warn about the stages of grief but, in grief and sometimes failure, there are no stages. There is only the feeling of now. Each new now becomes a step toward acceptance and, ultimately, healing.
In writing these three haiku, I explore what healing is to me and how it has taken shape in my life through the mundane, the ordinary emotion, and the everyday ritual that often brings back memory of a loved one more clearly than a photograph ever can.
In writing, I also realize the meaning and intention of a poem often comes to me only after I have finished writing, as if it sneaks out of my subconscious and reveals itself to me; saying you have known I was there all along.
I invite you to enjoy Past, Generations, and Recovery and add or peel away some of the layers creating your illustration of healing.
Past
She hugs herself close . . . please continue reading here!
Generations
Tarnished box of hearts . . . please continue reading here!
Recovery
The peach tastes of you . . . please continue reading here!
As always, please do share your beautiful thoughts!
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BrittnyLee
Congrats !!!! 🙂
barbaraleaver
Congratulations, wonderful Haiku
Eleanor Lorene Lowe
CONGRATULATIONS 🎊 🍾🎉
Jaya Avendel
Thank you so much, dear!
cafebeauty2021
Congrats! Publishing your own writing is so exciting! My college is starting to encourage us to do the same, so I’m glad you’re haikus are being recognized!
Jaya Avendel
Encouragement is such a wonderful way to grow! What college do you attend?
cafebeauty2021
Westfield state! It’s a small state school, but they really encourage you to get published and get your writing out there.
Love and Literature
Huge congratulations Jaya! Well deserved x
Ruth| Ruthiee loves Glamour
Wow! Congratulations on this milestone Jaya! All three haiku’s published. Woohoo way to go girl! I read all three haikus and they are beautiful as always. My favourite was Past. Forgiving ourselves is something we all need to learn how to do. Congrats again Jaya!
D. Wallace Peach
Beautiful imagery, Jaya. Congrats on the publications!
lynnmumbingmejia
Congratulations on publishing! I read all 3 and they are wonderful. I love Haiku’s and were my favourite to do in school! Thanks for sharing xx
Lynn | https://www.lynnmumbingmejia.com
Sara Flower Kjeldsen
Congrats! This is very exciting.
Anika
Congratulations, Jaya! Past, Generations, and Recovery is so beautiful, I think that might be a new favourite next to the bookish one 🙂
Jaya Avendel
I am delighted by your words, Anika! Much gratitude.
Michele Lee
Jaya, it took me a day to click through the three. It was worth the wait. I cannot pick a favorite – they are all fantastic. I love the variety between the three and how they each took me to a different place, emotionally and the setting.
Jaya Avendel
Thank you, Michele, for sharing your magical and unique experience of each haiku! 🥰
bournemouthgirl
Congratulations on your publication! You have some beautiful writing Jaya. You have such a great way with words! Xx
Keep Calm & Drink Coffee
Oh before reading the haikus I surely want to agree with your idea of stages of grief since for me it is absolutely the same!
Thank you so much and embrace
Lisa's Notebook
I’m always amazed at how much meaning you can cram into so few words. My favourite is Past – “Nails trimmed short as a kindness” is wonderful, both literally and metaphorically. Congrats on getting published again, Jaya!
Heidi Bruaw
You have such a way with words! Those haikus are beautiful so it’s awesome that they made it into a magazine. Congrats!
Jaya Avendel
Thank you so much, Heidi!
Jeff Flesch
All three are lovely, Jaya. I get longing, beauty, and deep feelings from all three. Wonderful. Congratulations, my dear friend!
Susi Bocks
Lovely, Jaya! Congratulations! 🙂
barbaraleaver
Congratulations! Haiku comes in the short form but can express so much, as you say ‘it sneaks out of your subconscious having been there all along’. Great pieces.
Jaya Avendel
The essence of haiku does seem to be in the sneaking. 🙂
Artist/Poet_JayMoraShihadeh
congrats! all three are lovely, I especially enjoy “recovery”.
paeansunplugged
Congratulations, Jaya. Loved all three but the first one left lacerations on my soul and the last one was wicked good.
Jaya Avendel
Thank you so much for your beautiful read!
paeansunplugged
My absolute pleasure.
Michelle (Boomer Eco Crusader)
Beautiful Jaya! Congratulations!
Ingrid
All three are so beautiful Jaya: well done!
eob2
These are wonderfully written moments and memories caught. Congratulations always dear, how far you have come from that long ago post about submitting more poetry. 💙👏🏼🌻
Jaya Avendel
Thank you! It is a long journey indeed and one filled with so many good lessons. 🙂
eob2
You’re welcome, enjoying your progression from them. 🙂
Jaya Avendel
So happy to hear that! I love rereading and seeing how I have begun to perceive and present stories in new ways. 🙂
Andrew McDowell
Congrats!
Brenda Marie Fluharty
Beautiful haikus. Congratulations.