Writing samples by Ms Hilbert

Haikus

• purpose and passion, pretty off the tongue but difficult to taste

• twiggy trees in front, mountains behind, sky and reeds, and that’s about all

• ah the beauty of flowers and the many aspects of life!

• anything is not everything; nothing is that, though it may seem so

• see the melted snow, hear the quiet now, in our hearts we know such things

Essays

This piece appeared (June 2024) in The Gazette, a weekly newspaper covering news in Croton-on-Hudson, NY, and the surrounding area.