Reconciliation

I lift his picture
from the place I have pitched it.
Fortune cookie words:

~There is much of value in what you throw away.~

Remember once more
Joys he brought into my life,
as well as the pain.

The prompt for Tanka Tuesday is to write a Puente poem making use of any syllabic form. I choose Haiku. The quote in the middle stanza is from a fortune cookie. I know Haikus are not supposed to be named, but I couldn’t resist imparting a bit more information through a title.

Here is a link to more poems written to this prompt.

Image created with A.I.  after many failed attempts!!

Note: This is actually based on a true story, although what I found in my wastebasket after receiving that fortune in a fortune cookie was 1,000 pesos stapled to the inside of an envelope I’d crumpled up and thrown away.!!! And actually, the poem’s insight was one I achieved on my own, the wastebasket being a metaphor for a trial separation that ended in––you guessed it––a reconciliation.