water sign
(Tarot Queen of Cups) –
am I calm lake
vast moody ocean
or deep river?
13/11/25
three-day birthday
feasting with this kind friend
and that, and those …
last night’s tea just a snack,
pyjama day today
14/11/25
‘eighty-six
going on seventy-two,’
says my doctor
and, ‘I'm glad you’ve still got
your brain. I see so many …’
14/11/25
gifts: flowers
from her garden
food she grew
one birthday candle
hours of easy talk
17/11/25
by the third day
I've already stopped
writing daily
in my new diary
(birthday gift kindly meant)
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now I inscribe
my journal's blank pages
with new tanka –
poetry is my way
to fill my days, my life
20/11/25
dark moon
in the month and sign
of my birth –
not surprising I’m loath
to tidy my house
21/11/25