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Bipolar and ideas of how to help ourselves beyond medication
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@renwald Poetry can take so many forms, and your "final" version may well include insights beyond that last rewrite. I have written poetry since age 8 or so. The first paper was adding machine tape, that dates me! Now, more than 58 yrs later, I enjoy the challenge of haiku. Recently, while packing for this move, I thought my writings were centrally placed, but have found them literally all over the place, scribbled on envelopes, in journals, on receipts, in little notebooks. Most of them have a date. Re the response of people to a suicide, it is usually something just so out of their everyday, they capitalize on it.
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I was in Japan 5 weeks and started wrestling with Haiku. The staff at the traditional Japanese hotel were all excited and got swept up in helping me, even calling knowledgeable friends in the phone. They said they hadn’t fooled with it since grade school and it was a challenge even for them because of all the word-concept exclusions, limitations and interpretations (let alone translation and writing.
They said I did well but switching back and forth from Haiku and Anglo-Saxon is quite a chore and I’m disinclined to court the headaches resulting from switching gears. Glad you have a positive history though. It can be quite satisfying in ‘nleeding’ Out the built up emotional pressure.