Sitting on concrete,
Her only firm foundation.
Thin white hands held
A small cardboard rectangle,
Instead of two little girls.
Tanka
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Going In Circles
Chasing Bunny tails
Hopping around rabbit trails
Such a time waster
Senryu
Spring Cleaning
Distressed?
Oppressed?
Obsessed?
Depressed?
Repressed?
Suppressed?
Get rid of all those stresses
Banish all those presses
Remove all those sesses
Get rid of all those stresses
Add some blesses, progresses,
Impresses, and successes
Get rid of all those stresses
Banish all those presses
Triolet
How Many Roads?
How many roads have you trod
In those earthly shoes?
Though worn and weary yet you’d plod,
How many roads have you trod?
Through city streets or soggy sod,
Doin your best, payin your dues,
How many roads have you trod,
In those earthly shoes?
Triolet
The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind, The answer is blowin’ in the wind.
—Bob Dylan
Happy 78th Birthday today to Bob Dylan!
Prodigal of Praise
In the grocery store
I passed by a cart
Therein sat a wee child
A prodigal of smiles
Contentedly singing
Syllabic Verse
Bits and Pieces
Little things do matter
“Rome wasn’t built in a day”
Great things begin small
Senryu
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together” -Vincent Van Gogh
Someday-One Day
We are still dreaming
We are still rising
We are still trying
To live the creed
Syllabic Verse
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’
— Martin Luther King, Jr., “I Have a Dream,” delivered August 28, 1963
