Saturday, November 26, 2011

Tanka



a country road
through the dun colored landscape
of November
chimney smoke stirs a desire
to return home

Magnapoets Antholoogy 2009
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Thursday, November 17, 2011

Haiku



HAIKU FOR AUTUMN

a shift in the wind
all my neighnbor's leaves
are now mine

morning fog
a watercolor wash
of maple gold

woodland walk
all of autumn
under my feet


Midwest Haiku, Illinois Times, November 2002
Stylus Poetry Journal, December 2004
HSA Wall. Bend, Oregon June 2011

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Haibun

BIG SISTER 

She teases and torments me; plays with me and protects; chases me away and calls me back.

We share a room, toys and clothes, sickness and secrets.  We fight, yell and scream, scratch and pinch.  I bite her once.  The taste of brown soap still remembered.  When she’s away at camp I’m lonely.

She explains important matters.  The “curse,“ an aunt’s growing stomach, how boys are different from girls, why a neighbor divorced her husband.

sticky night
whispering
after lights out

Bottle Rockets, August 2008

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Haiga


Haigaonline, December 2010
Abandoned Series
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Saturday, November 5, 2011

Haiga



Haigaonline, December 2010, Abandoned Series
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