From the Skies to the Heavens
Fifth Prompt: Ripples
Word Count (for drabble only): 349 words
Nahyuta sat down, filling a page with small sentiments.
The ripples of lakes
Flowing from a single stone
Something small is big
The exercise always relaxed him, especially after long days of dealing with difficult people. Summarizing complexity into a simple structure was an art even the wisest monk struggled with. It was one thing to understand something. Quite another to articulate it.
A sun-filled smile, warm
Against my stubborn frowning
Her fire ignites mine
Ema wasn't coming to his chambers tonight. The evening snowstorm had seen to that. Nahyuta tried not to linger on the subject, but his mind would not listen.
Her long brown hair falls
A waterfall of vibrance
Simple, elegant
Perhaps it was for the best that the two of them were temporarily parted. Nahyuta had fallen behind on his evening meditation, and would be seeing that issue remedied as soon as he was calm enough. And these writings never failed to calm him.
Like drifting into trance
Her Holiness gives embrace
To all weary souls
It all started when he visited Japan for the first time. During his stay, he had become temporarily obsessed with the local culture to the point of embarrassment. Most of that enthusiasm had since faded, but his enjoyment of the haiku style had not. In his spare time, Nahyuta had written hundred of these, mostly involving his daily life. Nowadays, he preferred to avoid such topics, focusing on the beauty of nature and others.
Here I stand in time
The world spinning eternal
A ripple in history
Perhaps one day, he would fill a whole book of his short tales, all told in seventeen syllable fragments. He would hand his secrets over to the temple library in a place where young acolytes would find them, where they could read the story of the prince turned fugitive turned prosecutor turned regent. If they cared for such a tale.
But for now, it was getting late. One last poem before he began his evening routine.
The woman I love
The blessing I need to survive
The goddess favor you
A/N's: Yeah, I like writing haikus. I'm not very good at it, but they're lots of fun, and quick. And easy to do. Sounds a lot like this story, actually.
But yeah, this is just Nahyuta sitting by himself, using a creative outlet to unwind, which is basically what I'm doing. But I don't have a girlfriend as great as Ema in my life, so... whatever, I guess. This is just me pushing something out before the month ends in hopes my monthly view count passes four thousand for the first time (it's insanely close).
After this, I'm probably gonna either be working on AAI3 (which has a new part coming out very soon. It it currently with a beta) or Miracle (which I elected to use as my Camp NaNo project. Let's hope I don't regret it). Either way, stay tuned.
Thanks for reading, please review, and I'll see you on the far side!