Haiku on Friday Feb. '21

Haiku on Friday, Feb. '21

(including – or maybe mostly – senryu)

15 years a group

Haiku on Friday becomes

my private practice

5/2/21

on my holiday

reading writing walks TV

as on other days

 

12/2/21

summer rains –

weeds flourish uncleared

because snakes

19/2/21

steady rain

one brief bird call

through the dark

26/2/21

What's Haiku on Friday? See here.

Shared with Poets and Storytellers United at their Writers' Pantry #62. (Apologies to those who saw them already on Instagram.)

NaHaiWriMo 2021, Days 22-28

(Responding to February prompts at the NaHaiWriMo facebook group) 

Day 22: Yesterday

my yesterday 

became all my tomorrows –

I still believe

Day 23: Twist and Shout

… like we did last summer … 

oh no, that was a different song

many summers gone

Day 24: Across the Universe

Mars photos –

the surface dirt

looks normal

Day 25: Ticket to Ride

just one day there

rode cable cars in San Fran –

missed City Lights

Day 26: While My Guitar Gently Weeps  

the handsome one

quiet idealist –

I loved you best

Day 27: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

sky-high –

the planets whirl 

Day 28: Love Is All You Need

Help! I want to 

hold your hand yeah yeah yeah

love me do 

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.