My time with time

Displaced

A frozen moment

disturbed by chirping crickets

- Already summer?

Clarity

Driving on high-speed

motorway be like, one step

and then a-n-o-t-h-e-r.

Last few months I have been witnessing this elastic property of time. Like it stretches on for a while, almost paused, allowing me to pay attention to even the gentlest sounds of breeze or a crunch from the leaf that I stepped on. 

And then again at times it feels like I suddenly woke up in another time or a different season, kind of shifted from where I was. I don't know if this is just me, or if the lockdown has been making people feel a bit disoriented. Whatever it is, I decided to make these little haikus of some of these unique experiences within my head that I have been going through.

Would love to hear your story too.

The new normal

I keep hearing the term a 'new normal' too many times these days. And I cannot deny that the past few months has been instrumental in me finally picking up on the weakened voices inside my head.

I wonder what long term mutations we went through during our isolation and disconnection time.

...

Anticipation

A world disconnected,

and dire, apocalyptic -

end of season 1.

The new romantic

Could you avoid me?

If you do truly love me,

this midsummer night.
...

As expected, the concoction of too much sleep the morning before, a coffee consumed late in the day stirred together with (now) once-a-decade kind of rare creative juice flowing meant that I was awake most of last night.

In it together

Keeping with times is important. And when it is not possible to keep running, trying to make tiny, minuscule attempts of movement is better than not doing anything.

And so here is today's attempt at revival of the writer in me. Or better still, revival of the person, who was capable of holding a thought until it's discovery through expression.

In it, together

Friends and coworkers,

  Cohabitants and lovers,

Coviding 'gether

P.S.
This is my first haiku attempt - A Japanese art of writing a poem with three basic constructs:

• 5-7-5 syllable
• Seasonal element (kigo)
• and most important - A cutting word (kireji) which juxtaposes two ideas.