Brooklyn, I'm Trying https://www.brooklynimtrying.com an urban lifestyle + travel blog by liz norment. Wed, 15 Apr 2020 23:31:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://i0.wp.com/www.brooklynimtrying.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cropped-bk.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Brooklyn, I'm Trying https://www.brooklynimtrying.com 32 32 109043934 City of Windows | The 150th Haiku https://www.brooklynimtrying.com/city-of-windows-the-150th-haiku/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=city-of-windows-the-150th-haiku https://www.brooklynimtrying.com/city-of-windows-the-150th-haiku/#respond Tue, 14 Apr 2020 17:26:19 +0000 http://www.brooklynimtrying.com/?p=8731 With light and through panes She couldn’t help but wonder Of the lives within. A transportive #haikuesday bringing you to the streets of Lagos, Portugal where I found myself, taking this photo, 6 years ago today. And yeah, I know]]>

With light and through panes

She couldn’t help but wonder

Of the lives within.

A transportive #haikuesday bringing you to the streets of Lagos, Portugal where I found myself, taking this photo, 6 years ago today. And yeah, I know it’s “Wednesday” but I think that’s all kind of out the window now, right?

]]> https://www.brooklynimtrying.com/city-of-windows-the-150th-haiku/feed/ 0 8731 Positive Attraction | The 149th Haiku https://www.brooklynimtrying.com/positive-attraction-the-149th-haiku/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=positive-attraction-the-149th-haiku https://www.brooklynimtrying.com/positive-attraction-the-149th-haiku/#respond Tue, 31 Mar 2020 22:51:04 +0000 http://www.brooklynimtrying.com/?p=8664 Magnetic; she felt pulled toward this place, his face as she walked away. A pleasant little #haikuesday about the things that draw us and keep us here in this city. Which, I suppose what is keeping us here at the]]>

Magnetic; she felt

pulled toward this place, his face

as she walked away.

A pleasant little #haikuesday about the things that draw us and keep us here in this city. Which, I suppose what is keeping us here at the moment is an invisible enemy and dangerous virus that not only keeps us here, but keeps us away from each other as well.

Hang in there Brooklyn. We’re all still here with each other and for each other.

]]> https://www.brooklynimtrying.com/positive-attraction-the-149th-haiku/feed/ 0 8664 Be Right There | The 122nd Haiku https://www.brooklynimtrying.com/be-right-there-the-122nd-haiku/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=be-right-there-the-122nd-haiku https://www.brooklynimtrying.com/be-right-there-the-122nd-haiku/#respond Fri, 09 Aug 2019 17:44:07 +0000 http://www.brooklynimtrying.com/?p=7597 She came out to see the waves calling, falling, free a sea, beckoning.]]>

She came out to see

the waves calling, falling, free

a sea, beckoning.

]]> https://www.brooklynimtrying.com/be-right-there-the-122nd-haiku/feed/ 0 7597 Kinda Shady | The 121st Haiku https://www.brooklynimtrying.com/kinda-shady-the-121st-haiku/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kinda-shady-the-121st-haiku https://www.brooklynimtrying.com/kinda-shady-the-121st-haiku/#respond Thu, 01 Aug 2019 17:44:17 +0000 http://www.brooklynimtrying.com/?p=7601 Sun-soaked and salty “I could stay here forever,” she told him. “with you.”]]>

Sun-soaked and salty

“I could stay here forever,”

she told him. “with you.”

]]> https://www.brooklynimtrying.com/kinda-shady-the-121st-haiku/feed/ 0 7601 Ashore, Just | The 120th Haiku https://www.brooklynimtrying.com/ashore-just-the-120th-haiku/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ashore-just-the-120th-haiku https://www.brooklynimtrying.com/ashore-just-the-120th-haiku/#respond Tue, 23 Jul 2019 17:54:49 +0000 http://www.brooklynimtrying.com/?p=7604 She was assured, just as rocks and waves and days passed this was summer, love.]]>

She was assured, just

as rocks and waves and days passed

this was summer, love.

]]> https://www.brooklynimtrying.com/ashore-just-the-120th-haiku/feed/ 0 7604 Riomaggiore | The 119th Haiku https://www.brooklynimtrying.com/riomaggiore-the-119th-haiku/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=riomaggiore-the-119th-haiku https://www.brooklynimtrying.com/riomaggiore-the-119th-haiku/#respond Thu, 18 Jul 2019 18:33:22 +0000 http://www.brooklynimtrying.com/?p=7614 “Come, meet me,” he said “on the coast of Italy.” She’d never look back.]]>

“Come, meet me,” he said

“on the coast of Italy.”

She’d never look back.

]]> https://www.brooklynimtrying.com/riomaggiore-the-119th-haiku/feed/ 0 7614 Up in the Air | The 114th Haiku https://www.brooklynimtrying.com/up-in-the-air-the-114th-haiku/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=up-in-the-air-the-114th-haiku https://www.brooklynimtrying.com/up-in-the-air-the-114th-haiku/#respond Tue, 07 May 2019 20:34:23 +0000 http://www.brooklynimtrying.com/?p=7129 Fleeting, floating through arrivals and departures her skies, always blue.]]>

Fleeting, floating through

arrivals and departures

her skies, always blue.

]]> https://www.brooklynimtrying.com/up-in-the-air-the-114th-haiku/feed/ 0 7129 Shaken | The 113th Haiku https://www.brooklynimtrying.com/shaken-the-113th-haiku/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=shaken-the-113th-haiku https://www.brooklynimtrying.com/shaken-the-113th-haiku/#respond Tue, 30 Apr 2019 20:47:41 +0000 http://www.brooklynimtrying.com/?p=7134 Restlessly in Spring hearts and souls and drinks become slightly shaken, up.]]>

Restlessly in Spring

hearts and souls and drinks become

slightly shaken, up.

]]> https://www.brooklynimtrying.com/shaken-the-113th-haiku/feed/ 0 7134 Sprung | The 112th Haiku https://www.brooklynimtrying.com/sprung-the-112th-haiku/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sprung-the-112th-haiku https://www.brooklynimtrying.com/sprung-the-112th-haiku/#respond Tue, 23 Apr 2019 20:31:34 +0000 http://www.brooklynimtrying.com/?p=7128 With a smile, she knew the warmth in her skin, her heart was springtime and you.]]>

With a smile, she knew

the warmth in her skin, her heart

was springtime and you.

]]> https://www.brooklynimtrying.com/sprung-the-112th-haiku/feed/ 0 7128 To/From NYC, with love |The 111th Haiku https://www.brooklynimtrying.com/to-from-nyc-with-love-the-111th-haiku/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=to-from-nyc-with-love-the-111th-haiku https://www.brooklynimtrying.com/to-from-nyc-with-love-the-111th-haiku/#respond Fri, 19 Apr 2019 18:45:09 +0000 http://www.brooklynimtrying.com/?p=7009 Tireless, somehow the city that never sleeps keeps me, finds me, still.]]>

Tireless, somehow

the city that never sleeps

keeps me, finds me, still.

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