the one who went first
waiting for me
labyrinth’s center
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Julie Schwerin
Julie Warther Schwerin served as Midwest Regional Coordinator for the Haiku Society of America (www.hsa-haiku.org), is an associate editor at The Heron's Nest (www.theheronsnest.com) and was instrumental in establishing The Forest Haiku Walk in Millersburg, Ohio (https://www.innathoneyrun.com/open-air-art-museum/haiku-walk/) and the Seasons of Haiku Trail at The Holden Arboretum in Kirtland, Ohio. (http://www.holdenarb.org/seasons-of-haiku-interpretive-trail/)
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Beautiful, Julie. You will walk back from the center together.
Not only is this evocative for this Good Friday, but it is also a poem that unfolds slowly. I love the timing and the peace in the poem. Very well done.
Beautiful, Julie. You will walk back from the center together.
Thanks Jo! Yes, let's!
Not only is this evocative for this Good Friday, but it is also a poem that unfolds slowly. I love the timing and the peace in the poem. Very well done.
Thanks Dan! Yes, it was so good to it presented today!
Wonderful poem – thank you
Thanks so much, Ellen!
So many connections… Wonderful timing for Good Friday. I will come back to this one again and again. Thank you.
Thanks, Nancy. I'm glad it resonated with you!
I agree with all the comments, beautifully worded and also comforting, thank you.
Thanks Jane!
Teases the soul.
one step
at a time
pilgrimage
Yes, Bill! Every journey does indeed begin this way!
I see the inference of death too in those first two lines.
derelict church-
a gravestone rubbing
In hands charcoal dark
Yes, David. Death is a possibility here too. I can feel the chalkiness of the gravestone rubbing. Thanks for your response!