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Eyes
House of Haiku prompt “eyes”
A look in his eyes
Meets my heart, beats and flutters
I know he sees me.
I wrote this with my one true love in mind. While scrolling through photos to add, I realized that this haiku could be interpreted as a love poem or a fear poem. You decide.
Jonica is a writer, rancher, painter, and a poet. For the past ten years, she has been living and working on a ranch in Texas with her husband, 1 teenager, 2 dogs, 2 cats, 10 goats, 80 sheep, a handful of chickens, 4 drakes, and a llama. She writes about all of this and her many, varied life experiences. Jonica is a mental health advocate and shares her experiences in the hopes of de stigmatizing mental and emotional conditions. She does not like the words “mental illness”, “disorder”, and “should” among many others.
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