Longfellow Quote

Longfellow Quote

Saturday, June 8, 2019

The Second Book


The second book is a sacred thing ~ it's going forward with the promise to yourself that you are a writer. That you will keep doing this thing.



In this case, Chrysalis is a compilation of three years of my life, through caregiving, grief, and recovery. It's verse, a day here, a day there. One of my friends at the Left Bank Writer's Retreat said she thought she could do a haiku a day, and that was my inspiration. I thought "I think I could manage that, too."


Being able to just jot a short line often emptied emotion in a powerful way. It was hard to revisit some of these poems to type the manuscript, but in the end, they showed me that I survived, and that others can as well - and maybe not just survive, but also take flight.


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