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H Brent Bruser's avatar

I love memory stones, place holders of our life’s precious moments

Bar Scott's avatar

Indeed. ❤️

Doris Dembosky's avatar

A smooth stone - free of hard edges and imperfections. I carry one with me... rub my thumb over the oval... feel at-peace. xo

Bar Scott's avatar

nice. I felt that today too. I'll keep it in my pocket for that purpose.

Robby Berman's avatar

Except for all the extra syllables, feels like a haiku! (Also, what a nice place to live.)

Bar Scott's avatar

What a nice thing to say. Thank you. And yes, it’s a great place to live. I would like you to tell me what part of that would make for a good haiku??

Bar Scott's avatar

…or maybe you could write it…

Bar Scott's avatar

Robby, please see posts that follow and what you inspired. You’re up next.

Bill B's avatar

With all credit to Robby for capturing the thought, and to Matsuo Basho who really knew how to use the traditional 5-7-5 form, and with great trepidation before the very discerning folks who post here regularly, here is what a haiku might look like:

Forest opens, blue ocean appears

Fresh Spring air, waves, footprints in sand

Moment captured in a stone

Sorta...

Bar Scott's avatar

Oh I love this! Makes me smile bigly. Thank you.

Bill B's avatar

Here’s a better one from another Bill you know:

Sudden winter wind:

down from beech trees’ silver limbs

leaves of copper drift

Bar Scott's avatar

You’re on a roll, Bill! Keep going. Post ‘em all. Just great. Thank you.

Savitri Sarah Nelson's avatar

Oh how I love this!

Half the planet rising up to meet you.

The human-free beach.

And that pebble, made smooth by all that tossing around.

Just perfect.

Bar Scott's avatar

Dear Sarah, thank you as always. I wanted to use ‘awesome’ as it was meant to be used but held myself back, but that view of the ocean is exactly that. ❤️