Grasps

A bilingual (English & Romanian) personal journal of more or less rhyming thoughts.

Pages

Home
Broken Wings
Destiny (100 verses)
About

Friday, February 26, 2016

Ballast

What one lets go
And what one keeps
A mind’s ballast

Posted by Adrian at 8:50 AM

Email This BlogThis!Share to X Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest

Labels: english, haiku, holding on, letting go, limits, mind, x-x-x

No comments:

Subscribe To

Posts

Atom

Posts

Comments

Atom

Comments

Translate

Labels

english (4097) haiku (3988) 4-5-4 (1518) Love (415) x-y-z (384) Life (366) light (349) time (315) heart (271) x-x-x (253) mind (251) 3-4-3 (243) wind (224) moon (188) dreams (179) night (177) thoughts (171) path (165) soul (161) blossoms (160) rain (147) sky (146) change (136) fire (130) flight (125) searching (125) morning (123) beauty (122) winter (120) distance (118) snow (113) roses (112) feelings (111) leaves (110) trees (109) old (107) emptiness (106) home (105) words (105) Spring (104) clouds (104) waves (102) birds (98) summer (98) sea (97) darkness (94) stars (93) movement (91) falling (89) perception (89) autumn (86) silence (86) ends (82) mirrors (82) touch (82) river (81) butterfly (80) past (79) coldness (78) steps (78) storm (78) water (76) play (75) solitude (75) shadows (73) freedom (72) death (70) hope (70) walk (69) Memory (68) beginnings (68) broken (67) music (67) truth (65) windows (63) heaven (61) sound (61) knowing (60) sun (60) man (58) Nothing (57) flow (57) infinity (57) being (56) blue (56) eyes (56) geometry (56) illusions (55) embrace (54) nudity (54) smile (54) meanings (53) 3-5-3 (52) Dance (52) stillness (52) unknown (52) joy (51) limits (51) parts (51) loss (50) sailing (50) tree (50) candle (49) frozen (49) color (46) fight (46) wisdom (46) worlds (46) ice (45) nature (44) pond (44) wings (44) self (43) whole (43) noise (42) sunrise (42) future (41) green (41) perfume (41) understanding (41) awaken (40) becoming (40) growth (40) peace (40) sorrow (40) sunset (40) counting (39) fall (39) present (39) image (38) romanian (38) mountains (37) seeing (37) sleep (37) space (37) lost (36) depth (35) happiness (35) journey (35) magic (34) shores (34) stories (34) walls (34) wine (34) echo (33) faith (33) perfection (33) tenderness (33) air (32) angels (32) cat (32) cold (31) desire (31) ghost (31) traveler (31) Christmas (30) children (30) choice (30) quest (30) wish (30) worth (30) reality (29) ship (29) sweetness (29) chaos (28) marks (28) wild (28) bridge (27) fishing (27) form (27) openness (27) universe (27) verse (27) wonder (27) acceptance (26) appearance (26) city (26) whispers (26) beliefs (25) dust (25) eternity (25) fear (25) imagination (25) knowledge (25) white (25) you (25) Reflections (24) force (24) learning (24) pain (24) questions (24) rainbow (24) beloved (23) crowd (23) dive (23) duality (23) gods (23) madness (23) sand (23) spirit (23) stones (23) surrender (23) tea (23) wishes (23) Asleep (22) abyss (22) forgetting (22) jump (22) kiss (22) ocean (22) seeds (22) senses (22) 2-3-2 (21) awareness (21) creation (21) foolishness (21) heat (21) in memoriam (21) wounds (21) youth (21) chance (20) circle (20) footprints (20) nonsense (20) ripples (20) taste (20) art (19) blindness (19) purity (19) rhythm (19) unity (19) values (19) writing (19) Simplicity (18) buildings (18) friendship (18) frog (18) letting go (18) poem (18) sense (18) war (18) books (17) discovery (17) drunk (17) laughter (17) likeness (17) master (17) people (17) red (17) wandering (17) winds (17) attraction (16) door (16) existence (16) grass (16) humbleness (16) meditation (16) remains (16) swans (16) wood (16) expectations (15) grace (15) hell (15) known (15) patterns (15) power (15) souls (15) warriors (15) breath (14) calling (14) catch (14) dragon (14) evening (14) fate (14) fish (14) fog (14) god (14) ideas (14) islands (14) math (14) monsters (14) randomness (14) roots (14) survival (14) wreck (14) breathing (13) childhood (13) control (13) land (13) laws (13) lime (13) order (13) rabbits (13) sins (13) success (13) bowing (12) boxes (12) chains (12) completeness (12) contrast (12) crossing (12) game (12) garden (12) innocence (12) kindness (12) poet (12) puzzle (12) rage (12) shade (12) skin (12) timing (12) web (12) balance (11) belonging (11) clown (11) connectedness (11) destination (11) error (11) gifts (11) hunger (11) intersection (11) lover (11) richness (11) ships (11) small (11) tears (11) thunder (11) trains (11) dirt (10) ego (10) fragility (10) gardening (10) hardship (10) house (10) mastery (10) right (10) rules (10) weight (10) action (9) answers (9) attachment (9) black (9) cause (9) chess (9) convergence (9) deception (9) earth (9) fireworks (9) goals (9) gold (9) identity (9) numbers (9) prayer (9) scream (9) separation (9) sickness (9) thirst (9) traps (9) trust (9) Rising (8) alive (8) buds (8) captain (8) cleaning (8) concealment (8) crickets (8) dew (8) doubt (8) forgiving (8) greatness (8) habitute (8) insanity (8) needs (8) passion (8) perspective (8) pray (8) reason (8) romance (8) sadness (8) secrets (8) shelter (8) shine (8) smoke (8) speed (8) suffering (8) sword (8) symmetry (8) teaching (8) threads (8) will (8) wrong (8) Buddha (7) differences (7) dogs (7) gain (7) games (7) healing (7) language (7) live (7) masks (7) mourning (7) poorness (7) pull (7) purpose (7) revolution (7) riddles (7) scars (7) sharing (7) split (7) strangers (7) strength (7) swimming (7) truths (7) visible (7) whisky (7) Danube (6) Me (6) bubbles (6) care (6) centeredness (6) comfort (6) confusion (6) content (6) cooking (6) despair (6) diamonds (6) essence (6) gap (6) grandmother (6) intent (6) kingdom (6) letters (6) muse (6) mystery (6) potential (6) prison (6) sip (6) treasure (6) void (6) wolf (6) Zen (5) bamboo (5) bear (5) blessings (5) blood (5) blow (5) carnival (5) clothes (5) corruption (5) decay (5) departure (5) distraction (5) dragonfly (5) fashion (5) fortune (5) gray (5) hate (5) new (5) parents (5) progress (5) projection (5) promises (5) proudness (5) push (5) relativity (5) religion (5) sensibility (5) sensuality (5) skills (5) temptation (5) unexpected (5) voices (5) vulnerability (5) New Year's Eve (4) Sweeping (4) addiction (4) barriers (4) boredom (4) bridges (4) burial (4) certainty (4) church (4) creativity (4) destiny (4) drama (4) drawing (4) dream (4) effect (4) emotions (4) extremes (4) fun (4) honor (4) hopes (4) human (4) humanity (4) hunting (4) ignorance (4) kite (4) lough (4) miracle (4) mirage (4) nesting (4) paper (4) paradox (4) parallelism (4) pastel (4) patience (4) persistence (4) poetry (4) resilience (4) resistance (4) rhyme (4) rock (4) shame (4) she (4) song (4) sourness (4) spin (4) station (4) structure (4) swarm (4) technology (4) temples (4) tomcat (4) transience (4) trying (4) walks (4) wants (4) wave (4) weakness (4) women (4) June (3) army (3) attention (3) behavior (3) beholder (3) complexity (3) crash (3) cruelty (3) cycle (3) danger (3) demon (3) desires (3) destruction (3) disappointment (3) disciple (3) eclipse (3) effort (3) fantasy (3) finding (3) fruits (3) fuzziness (3) garbage (3) going with the flow (3) gravity (3) harmony (3) holding on (3) horse (3) indifference (3) intelligence (3) intensity (3) labyrinth (3) longing (3) luck (3) machine (3) metaphor (3) modelling (3) money (3) mother (3) mud (3) news (3) noapte (3) nostalgia (3) opposites (3) pen (3) philosophy (3) piety (3) prophecy (3) prophets (3) queen (3) reading (3) respect (3) support (3) surprises (3) things (3) thought (3) tragedy (3) tribute (3) trouble (3) union (3) weeds (3) wheels (3) work (3) Halloween (2) Rhine (2) act (2) adventure (2) advice (2) bees (2) bells (2) bias (2) bliss (2) cards (2) celebration (2) compassion (2) convention (2) cuddle (2) curse (2) deafness (2) design (2) dignity (2) dove (2) drought (2) experience (2) family (2) first (2) focus (2) football (2) fox (2) function (2) geisha (2) graffiti (2) grandpa (2) hermit (2) honey (2) hymn (2) impact (2) inquiry (2) intuition (2) irony (2) jewel (2) layers (2) laziness (2) lessons (2) lethargy (2) lord (2) losing (2) maps (2) mouse (2) nobility (2) oneness (2) pawns (2) physics (2) planets (2) pleasure (2) poison (2) proof (2) proportions (2) prose (2) punishment (2) ratacire (2) rebel (2) rebirth (2) recipes (2) reckon (2) redemption (2) reeverie (2) regrets (2) relationships (2) reverse (2) scene (2) sijo (2) snakes (2) sphere (2) splash (2) strings (2) symphony (2) synchronicity (2) taming (2) tao (2) temper (2) theater (2) tiger (2) toamna (2) tombs (2) trespassing (2) vara (2) virtue (2) vis (2) waste (2) 2-4-2 (1) Anul Nou (1) Black Sea (1) Cologne (1) Convergence old (1) Danube Delta (1) Dimineata (1) Europe (1) Journal (1) Pentagrama (1) Prietenie (1) Rhein (1) Rin (1) Roman (1) Zori (1) arrogance (1) artificial (1) atipit (1) atom (1) autocritica (1) ballet (1) beer (1) beginning (1) bird (1) body (1) bonsai (1) brandy (1) bride (1) bugs (1) calator (1) caprice (1) carte (1) catastrophes (1) challenges (1) cloud (1) coins (1) colb (1) comets (1) communication (1) compromises (1) concessions (1) countryside (1) courage (1) critica (1) cugetare (1) cure (1) daemon (1) data (1) debt (1) dedication (1) deer (1) defiance (1) detachment (1) devils (1) disasters (1) display (1) distance ships (1) distortion (1) doi pas (1) dpring (1) eagle (1) education (1) egg (1) electric (1) ellipse (1) engines (1) enigma (1) eords (1) epiphany (1) exile (1) explosion (1) facts (1) fila (1) filosofie (1) fiver (1) flavors (1) flesh (1) flights (1) flirt (1) fractals (1) frivolity (1) futility (1) geneza (1) genune (1) glass (1) go (1) goodness (1) gulf (1) harm (1) haste (1) hawk (1) heritage (1) history (1) honesty (1) humour (1) iarna (1) imagine (1) immobility (1) importance (1) information (1) intr-un (1) jefuitori (1) joc (1) knocking (1) lighthouse (1) like (1) lotus (1) loyalty (1) lying (1) magnolia (1) main (1) maturity (1) maze (1) meaning (1) melancholia (1) mercy (1) misfortunes (1) mistletoe (1) monarhala (1) morality (1) mormant (1) myths (1) necessity (1) negation (1) nightingale (1) oasis (1) obedience (1) origami (1) pages (1) parsimony (1) politicians (1) postmortem (1) poveste (1) practice (1) praise (1) premonition (1) pride (1) problems (1) programming (1) puppets (1) repetition (1) repulsion (1) rhetoric (1) rites (1) road (1) romantica (1) ruins (1) sacrifice (1) safety (1) salcie (1) salvation (1) sensitivity (1) sequence (1) shallowness (1) short (1) shortcuts (1) silk (1) sincerity (1) sine (1) sly (1) snoke (1) soare (1) solstice (1) star (1) strategy (1) student (1) surfing (1) symbols (1) systems (1) tarziu (1) tease (1) terror (1) thanks (1) theft (1) torture (1) toys (1) tram (1) tstorm (1) uitat (1) variance (1) vers (1) view (1) violence (1) volcano (1) vrea (1) wedding (1) where (1) yellow (1) zi (1)

Total Pageviews

Visitors

Blog Archive

► 2024 (62)
- ► November (22)
- ► October (15)
- ► September (8)
- ► May (3)
- ► April (3)
- ► March (5)
- ► February (1)
- ► January (5)

► 2023 (35)
- ► December (5)
- ► November (4)
- ► October (11)
- ► July (2)
- ► June (1)
- ► May (1)
- ► March (1)
- ► January (10)

► 2022 (74)
- ► December (14)
- ► October (3)
- ► September (4)
- ► August (1)
- ► July (6)
- ► June (10)
- ► May (1)
- ► April (2)
- ► March (16)
- ► February (17)

► 2021 (213)
- ► December (3)
- ► November (8)
- ► October (16)
- ► September (5)
- ► August (5)
- ► July (31)
- ► June (16)
- ► May (37)
- ► April (38)
- ► March (12)
- ► February (18)
- ► January (24)

► 2020 (129)
- ► December (4)
- ► November (10)
- ► October (12)
- ► September (3)
- ► August (7)
- ► July (4)
- ► June (5)
- ► May (4)
- ► April (8)
- ► March (10)
- ► February (23)
- ► January (39)

► 2019 (256)
- ► December (8)
- ► November (24)
- ► October (45)
- ► September (4)
- ► August (2)
- ► July (14)
- ► June (37)
- ► May (12)
- ► April (29)
- ► March (39)
- ► February (27)
- ► January (15)

► 2018 (373)
- ► December (18)
- ► November (22)
- ► October (31)
- ► September (32)
- ► August (18)
- ► July (26)
- ► June (20)
- ► May (34)
- ► April (30)
- ► March (52)
- ► February (52)
- ► January (38)

► 2017 (741)
- ► December (21)
- ► November (34)
- ► October (25)
- ► September (18)
- ► August (36)
- ► July (95)
- ► June (67)
- ► May (89)
- ► April (100)
- ► March (100)
- ► February (67)
- ► January (89)

▼ 2016 (1188)
- ► December (106)
- ► November (100)
- ► October (85)
- ► September (74)
- ► August (65)
- ► July (79)
- ► June (71)
- ► May (119)
- ► April (81)
- ► March (124)
- ▼ February (124)
  - Memory
  - Spring
  - Boredom
  - Touch
  - Heartless
  - Words
  - Remains
  - Light
  - Halves
  - Flavors
  - Growth
  - Blossoms
  - The Thief
  - Chase
  - Candles
  - Rhythm
  - Ballast
  - Masks
  - Jump!
  - Vanity
  - Coldness
  - Impressions
  - Air-Punching
  - Rambling
  - Being
  - Afar
  - Likeness
  - Fire
  - Letting Go
  - Fortitude
  - Journeys
  - Metamorphosis
  - Spin
  - Traces
  - Trance
  - Flutter
  - Beauty
  - Flight
  - Education
  - Lecture
  - The Oasis
  - Discrepancies
  - Tourists
  - [Unnamed]
  - Fight
  - Shipwrecks
  - Wordiness
  - Blossoms
  - Embrace
  - Hide-and-Seek
  - Wandering
  - Stories
  - Puzzle Solving
  - Twist
  - Chills
  - Ice Fishing
  - Sunk
  - Spring Dreams
  - Winter Roses
  - The Nest
  - The Passenger
  - Blindness
  - Non-Sense
  - Life-Less
  - Dreamless
  - Frozen
  - Runaway Words
  - Persistence
  - Justice
  - Projections
  - Journeys
  - Singularity
  - Present
  - [Unnamed]
  - Fear
  - Irony
  - [Unnamed]
  - Cruelty
  - Forge
  - Wholeness
  - Quest
  - Mirroring
  - Presence
  - Falling
  - Dream-Chasing
  - Helpless
  - Dreams
  - The Letter
  - One More Day
  - Geodesic
  - Lock-in
  - Incompleteness
  - Truth
  - Bestowal
  - Duality
  - Edges
  - Forgiveness
  - Bridges
  - Lost in Translation
  - Blither
- ► January (160)

► 2015 (984)
- ► December (97)
- ► November (95)
- ► October (115)
- ► September (115)
- ► August (114)
- ► July (191)
- ► June (108)
- ► May (65)
- ► April (37)
- ► March (33)
- ► February (14)

► 2014 (15)
- ► December (4)
- ► November (2)
- ► October (6)
- ► September (1)
- ► August (2)

► 2012 (1)
- ► June (1)

► 2011 (6)
- ► January (6)

► 2010 (4)
- ► November (2)
- ► May (1)
- ► January (1)

► 2009 (24)
- ► December (6)
- ► October (1)
- ► September (1)
- ► August (7)
- ► July (6)
- ► February (3)

► 2008 (5)
- ► December (4)
- ► November (1)

► 2007 (3)
- ► February (3)

► 2006 (8)
- ► September (2)
- ► April (5)
- ► March (1)

► 2005 (45)
- ► November (45)

► 2003 (3)
- ► October (3)

All Poetry

All Poetry
Hackett's Haiku
HSA's Haiku Collections
ISSUU Haiku Collection
Kobayashi Issa's Haikus
Poetry
Poetry Freak
Poetry Soup
Poezie (ro)
Simply Haiku Archives
The Haiku Foundation

Disclaimer

This is kind of personal journal of thoughts, a mix between happy and not that happy ideas, with meanings that sometimes where distorted just for the sake of exploring an idea. Any resemblance with other work is pure accidental. The ideas do not necessarily represent my beliefs, feelings or memories, even if in them there’s some truth hidden.

grasps.blogspot.com 2017. Powered by Blogger.