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Our Folly, Desire: a #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 #quadrille – #haibun
We don’t know what we want.
We ask, don’t receive. Flush our sleeves with vain tears! We receive, and oh, woe! Unintended consequences, our sorrowful song.
“Some quality time at home would be nice…”
mispent wish …
the gift we can’t keep
or give away
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Tagged as: AprPad2020, coronavirus, Discover Prompts, dVerse, GloPoWriMo2020, haibun, haiku, Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads, NaPoWriMo2020, photo, poetry, senryu
Published by Frank J. Tassone
Husband, Father, Writer, Teacher. American Haijin. Because Haikai matters!
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You are right! We never seem to be satisfied or have enough. We are always used to having our whims at the snap of a finger…. what a shock! Eh?
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Lockdown shows no moderation. Extremes of anything are not comfortable as we struggle for equilibrium. May it come soon.
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As uncomfortable as they are, lockdowns save lives by preserving healthcare systems. Nevertheless, I played on the With Real Toads’ prompt of wish gone wrong and April PADS prompt isolation to come up with the quote line.
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Yes, it has the feeling of the genie granting us the wish we never asked for.
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Yes! Thank you for noticing; I was inferring that idea–among other wish-gone-wrong ones. 😉
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LOL. Wickedly true.
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Profoundly true, a gorgeous quadrille/haibun of lockdown
Stay safe, Frank
Much😷love
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what a fabulous line
. Flush our sleeves with vain tears”
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Thank you! 🙂
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Good point about being frustrated either way: receiving or not receiving.
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Thanks, Frank! 🙂
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The line between not enough and too much is malleable. (K)
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“Be careful what you wish for” is a true old adage. We are a greedy society, always wanting bigger and better, sometimes to our detriment.
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Indeed. Thanks, Beverly! 🙂
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When we wish for it we don’t really know what it means… these days though I feel fine with it.
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Indeed. My days have settled into a routine: morning meditation, coffee, breakfast with more coffee, work (running remote learning classes from my office), family walk, poetry, dinner, poetry, family time, evening meditation (if I’m not lazy), sleep. Not that different then when I worked in my school.
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We must learn to love what we have and stop yearning for what we don’t! Lovely, Frank.
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Aww, this is so true. I think we sometimes just want the opposite of what we have. I am enjoying this time at home…every second of it.
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