Hike Haiku
These came to me during my hike this past Tuesday. Fortunately, I decided to bring a journal with me on this hike — I usually don’t, but will from now on. These are ‘as is’ … no revisions were made to these at all. I feel as if they downloaded to me in the moment. I wasn’t even writing at the time. I had to quickly pull out my journal on two separate occasions to quickly jot these down as I was a little shocked that they just popped into my head. Why the lengthy explanation about two simple haiku? This is not like me at all. I’m not a writer. I don’t sit around thinking about or writing haiku. There was something about this hike that helped me reconnect with my inner being and the ‘something larger than myself’. So when these came, I paid attention. And here they are …
elevation gives
awareness of that which is
important and true
the ascent is tough
but once there, it’s up to me
when to go back down
