It’s Monday over at dVerse poets. Haibun Monday. This week the topic is “kindness”. Pop over, have a read and join in from here.This is my entry.
I’m in the Victorian House enclave of Brooklyn. They’re filming a movie. So this usually means no parking spaces for mere mortals. I find a spot. I’m backing in and the guy behind me is opening his hood. I park and go about my business.
I come back to my car and there’s a ticket on it. I’m irritated. I don’t remember a parking meter. Damn!
This guy is where I left him. Only this time he has booster cables attached to his battery. Traffic is slow, yet no one stops I pullout and back up next to his car. I pop the hood of my car to the sound of blaring horns behind me. He turns the key in his ignition, the car starts. He gave me the biggest smile, thanking me perfusely. Then I noticed his small grand daughter in the car. Suddenly, I was no longer irritated.
in the shelter
of dried maple leaves
a seedling
Pat R
10/30/17
For
#OctPoWriMo
thoughts and entanglements 
Ah, great story. I love the haiku – the growth of something new and beautiful in an unprepossessing place.
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Thank you Sarah, so glad you enjoyed it. I was having doubts as to the haiku connecting to the prose:)
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Kindness exists! 🙂
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Oh yes.
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So sweet of you. It goes to show that kindness can be showed in spite of your mood or situation. Great haiku.
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Thank you Vivian. Glad you enjoyed the read : )
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😊
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Irritation leaves when it is replaced by empathy.
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Oh yes, so true: ) Thank you Frank.
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I really love how your irritation over that parking ticket dissipated … so lovely to get that smile of the granddaughter —- truly priceless.
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Thank you Björn. It truly was: )
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Its often the things we don’t notice that makes kindness all the more sweat. You did not even know the grand daughter was in there when you committed to the act of kindness. Knowing she was there made it all the sweeter. I think too it is hardest in those moments when we are already struggling – like getting the ticket – to be kind, but it can turn our day around so fast.
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You are so right.it really did turn my day around. I left the area with lifted spirits and it carried through the rest of my day:)
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Thank you for sharing your story! Wonderful haiku as well.
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Thank you Beverly: )
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How very kind of you to help out ~ Your photo and haiku on seedling is lovely ~ Makes me want to skip over winter and go right into spring ~
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Thank you Grace. I know the feeling:)
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Oh! That GORGEOUS haiku. And I can see that small girl, so sweet.
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Oh thank you Sherry. Glad you like it: )
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A lovely example of the power of kindness. Happy Halloween 🌼
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Thank you. And the same to you : )
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I apologize for getting to your submission so late. I lost internet (!) yesterday during the prompt and just got it back sometime early this morning. Lovely haiku at the end of this wonderful telling. I love how you saw the small child and how she made your irritation disappear. It is indeed the importance of being kind that changes everything.
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No apologies needed….Thank you, glad you like the haiku. That whole incident made my day : ) And it happened 2 days before this prompt..
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Truly beautiful.
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Thank you Susan.
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Fantastic ending
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Thank you, glad you enjoyed it.
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What an amazing person you are!! It is nice to see kindness in cities still …your haiku captures your narrative beautifully!
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Thank you, so glad you like it: )
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I love reading about acts of kindness.
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Thank you, it was a fun write.
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