Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Tanka


eons and eons
wearing away time and rocks
long before we were born
was it a plan ordained
that we met that summer night?




concrete tunnels
the hard shapes of steel and glass
reaching upward
a manmade world
connected by sky

Modern English Tanka
Moonbathing

Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Tanka for winter


moonlight
blue-black shadows
across the snow;
daylight shapes become
my new ghosts
Modern English Tanka

Haibun

Hector Combattente April 17, 1989-October. 27, 1995 in loving memory   Sunday Morning With Dad I'm a young child–five years old, six, se...