even an old manhas New Year’s eyes…cherry blossoms © Kobayashi Issa (Tr. David G. Lanoue) an old man’s New Year’s eyes cherry blossoms for Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #85 Photo-shopping Haiku (2) Cherry Blossom Advertisements
Tightness in my throat. Remembering Mrs. Zengo’s confused disappointment. How hurt those brown eyes in that wrinkly forehead that creased with her frown. How sorry I felt—and unforgiven—until she realized I brought in an egg for another student’s recipe. I had overheard their conversation and mistakenly thought I […]
Do you wonder about me? How I nourish life in one hand and strip it away with the other? How I descend to the lowest places even the most bodhivassatic of you fail to go? How I ascend to the heights that once only the gods dwelt? How […]
All it takes is one slip to end this trip to these tips in tragedy. apex a view interrupted by sudden wind for RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #253 Slip&Tip and Mindlove misery’s Menagerie’s Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille, May 8th 2019 an experiment … one-bun
Rainfall. Temperatures plummet below fifty degrees F, from almost seventy yesterday. Every so often, leaves rustle and the wind chimes sound. We recover from hosting thirty of our family for Frankie’s confirmation barbeque. A quiet day resting at home is the Mother’s Day present Mira wants most this […]
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