Dip Ink Calligraphy

The latest skill I’ve been picking up.

Watching the words form according to the pressure of the nib has been therapeutic, comforting and strangely satisfying. Now, I just need to keep improving!

When There Are Too Many Words

There are days when I feel that I feel too much, when I think I think too much. And all the feelings and thoughts crash into each other, into me, within me, so that I feel so  overwhelmed with all that is supposedly me. If I manage to calm down enough to look at each thought and each feeling separately, analyzing where they come from, why they manifest, they may then not appear as overwhelming as they feel. If I calm down enough to process the thoughts and put them into words, the concrete tangibility of the process helps me achieve distance and perspective.

On a day when even the words didn’t seem to help, and the shapes the ink formed made my thoughts and emotions even more jumbled than ever, Haikus came to the rescue.

Structure – Self-imposed structure, aesthetically mandated structure. Ghosts captured in a box don’t look so scary… Until they escape again.

Have you thought about

The liking and dislike of

Someone you don’t know?

Something they say, do,

And the impression is fixed

We are weird beings.

Wired to believe

What we feel and think is true

Refusing maybes.

Then we think, wonder.

Who are we, if we are so

Easily Defined.

A New Form of Expression

I fell in love with

A new form of expression

Hello first Haiku