Saturday, March 22, 2025

Monday, March 10, 2025

Haiku


                                                          woodland phlox
                                             wet grass sticking
                                             to my clothes
Gean

Sunday, March 2, 2025

Haibun


BACK STORY    

 

missing you

I warm the bed

with a hot brick


          There is a memorial service and I receive your ashes.

          I listen to your troubled breathing until it stops.

          You call me bitch for putting you in a nursing home.

          Your condition is worsening, and you need a wheel chair.

          Cognition is going, your body is weakening, moods are erratic.

          We know something is wrong even before the diagnosis.

 

clocks jump ahead

a date on the calendar

I fail to see


Frogpond 

Sunday, February 23, 2025

Tanka


 a dawdling day
with lazy plans to drift
in the quiet
dusk delivers a cool breeze
and a hint of  lilacs
HaikuKatha

Sunday, February 16, 2025

Thursday, January 30, 2025

Tanka


pushing through the day
small reminders of age
force a slower pace
this season of winter
becomes a quieter time
Presence

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Haibun


A New Day            

 

The day is cool, but not uncomfortable. Sunny and cloudless. Trees, brightly dressed in shades of red, orange, yellow. Light breezes send leaves spiraling to the ground. Nothing on my must do list, no doctor’s appointments, no bills to pay, no shopping to do.  

 

                                      meandering

                                      all my senses

                                      out for a walk

  Presence 

Haiku

  early spring in my side vision yellow crocus HH Newsletter