Haibun: ‘Black Fridays’

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Fridays were special,
work was plentiful;
when the job centre found you.

Now just any other day —
yet blacker,
more dastardly,

that Friday feeling
banished forever
to that distant land

called happiness.

Gold fish in a bowl
Endless demented circling
Who’s the first to speak?

Copyright Francis Barker 2020

Mental Health Is ‘My Thing’ — Bombay Ficus (Reblog)

With everything that is going on around the world, we are exposed to crises on a daily basis each time we scroll through our feeds. So naturally, one day gender equity is our thing, one day it is equal wages, another morning we are moved by farmers’ plight, and then our new thing is mental […]

Mental Health Is ‘My Thing’ — Bombay Ficus

*Check out this great article above — our mental health is so important and especially right now.

17 Amazing Health Benefits of Yoga — daneelyunus (Reblog)

Yoga – The word”yoga” in the Western world which indicate a modern form of Hatha yoga and consisting largely of the postures known as asanas.  It is one of the six orthodox schools of traditions of Hindu philosophical. Yoga is a group of mental, physical and spiritual practices or disciplines which started in ancient India. […]

17 Amazing Health Benefits of Yoga — daneelyunus

*Great article above. There is never a bad time to take up good practices — and yoga is one such good practice.

Haiku: Travails of the Sun

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Sunday was special
Laws of men deemed it not so
Which law is righteous?

Copyright Francis Barker 2020

Haiku: Still That Friday Feeling?

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That Friday feeling
You know it used to feel good
Just another day