Hope Box - Haiku

hope box
Emotions I go through while hoping; on pen and paper

Hope is so clingy
Non-existantial triumph
Dissapointingly

Linking the haiku to this week's Verse First on Poets United : Patterns, as I believe hope comes and goes in patterns.

21 comments:

  1. Is there a key for our understanding? :P #JustAsking

    Btw, The Haiku - Well Penned. :)

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    1. Definitely, Ajay, I'd describe those feelings on my horrendous drawing as stages (each box). First is everything is grey but you try to see black and white. You try to find hope. Second is when you try to sort out things into black and white boxes, your own way. But they only keep falling one over another. Third is when it gets clear you're about to face something that will break your heart for ever, but you try to cling on to hope. Fourth is when you try to avoid the situation altogether to avoid getting hurt. Fifth is when you hope against all odds that something good will happen out of your insane situation. 7th is when that doesn't happen and so you cry, on the inside. 8th is when you start losing hope; those wires hanging on to you to keep you stable are one by one pulled off. 9th is when it really starts to ache in your chest. 10th is when you delude yourself and let all emotions drown you (circles of complex thoughts inside complex circles). And then. There's no more hope left. You don't even feel disappointment anymore. You feel nothing.

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    2. :) Thank you. I'm glad you asked!

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  2. Hope does come and go for some, and surely a pattern often exists. I believe we can learn much from documenting our own feelings and concurrent circumstances in order to identify patterns. By recognizing and understanding habits, patterns and triggers, we have the power to embrace or change them.

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    1. I never thought that way! Thanks a lot. That's a brilliant way to coordinate your life! :D

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  3. very unique take on the theme chhavi . Never seen hope depicted this manner . Wonderfully crafted :)

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  4. seeing the patterns in life bring more control when you accept them and work with them. you poem is complex i enjoyed it very much.

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    1. Seems so to me now too after reading Kim's comment. Thank you.

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  5. The explanation was wort reading. Wonderfully crafted :)

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  6. I found your Hope Box intriguing and your explanation of it in the comments section even more so. Wow.

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    1. Thank you. Not much of an artist, but I had to put some feelings on paper that time. And quick.

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  7. Find it wonderful painted in the background of your comment!:)

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    1. I'm glad the explanation is more intriguing :)

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  8. Beautiful haiku Chhavi! The picture and the haiku beautifully explains the dark side of hope when things don't work out the way we planned.
    Sometimes, though keeping hope disappoints us badly, we can't live without hoping!

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