A Petrified Vine
Suddenly, Aquamarine Light, Life
The Forest Breathes Anew
~Theodore Maestranzi
This Haiku took me way too long to write. At the coffee shop: I read, wrote a journal entry, wrote another haiku, and then got brain busted on this one. I knew what I wanted, and that was to focus on the color aquamarine, but I found it impossible to really drive to the heart of the haiku’s message since so many syllables were taken up by that single word. Each time I tried to write it, I found myself struggling and trying to increase the density of each word to fully cover what I was feeling. In the end, I like the way it ended up, but I wish I could share it with the person who inspired it.