August 2021 Blog
No Way: A Haiku
It may seem I’m not
Getting anywhere, yet I
Will not go nowhere.
by Ann Wilmer-Lasky
Stubborn,
aren’t I? As August starts on another
rainy note, it also brings an upswing in Coronavirus cases again. My mind has
grown tired of living in fear of its own life. I would have peace from this
global hell of man’s creation.
I
would have surcease of constant sorrow. I would have freedom from constant fear
of death, either of mind or body. It also wouldn’t hurt to have freedom from
the constant restrictions imposed in the battle to fight this pandemic for over
one-and-a-half years.
I
would have an end to it all.
I
had a dream about nothingness last night and woke up with the tune and words to
The Beatles “Nowhere Man” running through my muddled mind. Hence the above
Haiku. In the dream, I was choosing a morbid dark-hued cloak with even darker
symbols which I don’t remember clearly except for a dark maroon star (and I’m not
even sure of its shape).
I
also chose a pliable blue mask of a freakish cat face. It all might make a
great horror novel some day, but I have no clue what any of it means.
But that idea will have to wait until the
completion of my many other projects . When will that time come?
Sooner
than later, I promise. Starting today, I have promised to write every day. At
least until the end of the year, if not forever. So far, such a pledge has
worked well for me. I’ve posted at least one Haiku a day every day since
January 1, 2014 and a blog on the first of every month since January 1, 2017.
So,
next month’s blog will herald the progress I will have made during August.
Should put me close to the end of the Sam Rock sequel. Would love to publish
that by the end of the year, lest I publish no new book this year at all.
Other
than that, there’s not much new in my world. Hard to have new experiences when
there’s little you can go out and do, even with some of the restrictions being
lifted. And sad to say that I’ve gotten used to not going anywhere and not
doing much.
You’d
think that I would enjoy the isolation
and write and write and write. But I always seem to run out of time or find
some way to put I off until a tomorrow that seldom comes.
I
so need to get beyond that and get back in the habit of writing ever day. It’s
the only way I’m going to get things done what I need and want to do.
And
to do that, I would best leave undone that which would waste my time – easier
said than accomplished.
But,
since I prefer not to be a “Nowhere Man”, I will give it another shot. We’ll see what happens. We’ll see how far I
can get.
July
has also been brutal. Looking for so much better from August. Here’s hoping.
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