Also a Path – Short poems in February (2021)

Also a Path

Micropoems in February (2021)

my ocean

the great blue Pacific

is also a path

#haiku

12/2/21

piercing –

that moment of pain

for dead loves

this Valentine’s Day 

then I recall the joy

#tanka

14/2/21

during COVID

Moon Calendar quietly

gets two years old

#senryu

16/2/21

sneezing

I get out the bedsox —

high summer!

#senryu

17/2/21

You may live to 200

while appearing 30,

said the angel.

But I thought I’d become

more and more lonely 

for old friends; I declined.

#American sentences x2 arranged as verse.

21/2/21

When the kids

were swift and mischievous

I Dalek-spoke

‘Exterminate! Exterminate!’

They merely rolled their eyes.

#kyoka

21/2/21

Tanka on Tuesday Feb. '21

Tanka on Tuesday, Feb. '21

I resist

ways she might shape me

into herself –

then someone tells me

‘You’re so like your mother!’

2/2/21

phone-calls

with an old friend –

lately

when he talks politics

I change the subject

9/2/21 

just four today

in the healing circle —

two old women

one small black-and-white dog

one life-like baby doll

we send healing

to all the animals

all living things

and to one new infant

struggling to keep breathing

16/2/21

night noises –

I put a tiny gecko

back outside

(whew!) then all alone I find

an unknown book on my bed

23/2/21

What's Tanka on Tuesday? See here.

Sharing with Writers' Pantry #60 at Poets and Storytellers United.  

Haiku on Friday and Tanka on Tuesday – Back story

Haiku on Friday and Tanka on Tuesday – Back story

In December 2020 I finally retired and archived the groups 'Haiku on Friday' and 'Tanka on Tuesday' which I began in 2006 on MySpace and continued on facebook (where, despite the names, it was easier to let people post any and every day).

For most of that time my friend (and mutually-adopted brother) Phillip Barker was my co-host. After he died in June 2019, I found I lost the heart to continue.