At the time I knew there was no way to make "Everything okay" and that there was no way not to get a divorce so sometimes writing Haiku was the only way I could make any sense at all emotionally of what was happening to me and all the members of my immediate family.
It allowed me to say things very simply yet profoundly and this helped me survive very difficult times in my life so I could remain useful not only to myself but to everyone involved in the process then in 1994.
However, I can't seem to find anything I wrote online about Haiku so it must still be in my penned writings in longhand from that time in my life. I'll try to go to Wikipedia to see if that is helpful.
The first thing is since I was trying to write in English it is called western Haiku.
Here is an example of western Haiku:
begin quote from wikipedia under the heading "Haiku"
The earliest westerner known to have written haiku was the Dutchman Hendrik Doeff (1764–1837), who was the Dutch commissioner in the Dejima trading post in Nagasaki, during the first years of the 19th century.[33] One of his haiku:[34]
| inazuma no kaina wo karan kusamakura |
lend me your arms, fast as thunderbolts, for a pillow on my journey. | end quote. |
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