We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage / And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, / We Poets of the proud old lineage / Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why ... (James Elroy Flecker)

20.11.25

November Tanka: Friends

 


long married

just turned eighty-seven

she ‘never

wanted another fella’ –

some fairy-tales come true


14/11/25



oh no! 

her new photo tells me

she’s old – 

so much younger than me

I know, how can this be?


19/11/25



next door

is quiet today –

the artist

I think must be working

deeply absorbed (like me)


20/11/25






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