A Showering Haiku
now fall warm showers
liquid drips off bodies, drenched
splashes lap our feet
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Words and Photography ©2018 Tanya Cliff ~ to contact me
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Month: April 2018
A Warming Haiku #3
finally flowers
the warm, green grass pads our feet
moss tickles our toes
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Words and Photography ©2018 Tanya Cliff ~ to contact me
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She Sings
why does she sing?
she turned 91, the old bird
her life’s mate was just caged in the nursing home
he can’t remember why
his once lengthy repertoire has been reduced to a few, sweet notes
her handicapped son still lives at home
needing her patient care
all he could ever do was chirp
the last of her friends died years ago
their songs now silent
she takes her coffee with younger generations
their noisy squawks sometimes give her a headache
but she never complains
she goes on singing, the old bird
and smiles and laughs
and shares a story
or ten
she sings
not because her life’s bird landed on a beautiful branch
in a flawless tree
she sings
because
as a bird in life’s tree
she can
~
for my Granny, who still tells the best stories and is an avid bird-watcher
~
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Crimson Ink
I respond to the beats
deferent
the pulse of life carries
oxygen
to
organs
limbs
finger tips
and
toes
when my pounding heart
echoes
the movements of my soul
my poised pen
forms
words
in
crimson
ink
flow
~
Words and Photography ©2018 Tanya Cliff ~ to contact me
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A Fluttering Haiku
stirs tranquil surface
the flutter of wings landing
pond trembles to life
~
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Kiss
lips kiss in embouchure
fingers dance over open holes
the French Flute sings
~
Words and Photography ©2018 Tanya Cliff ~ to contact me
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Imagine
imagine ~
if the obese worm
of bigotry
could be contained
in a chrysalis
there
forced to change
or starving die
might emerge
life’s
liberated
butterfly
~
Words and Photography ©2018 Tanya Cliff ~ to contact me
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A Haiku in the Snow ☃️
Nature sends cold gale
adorns buds with icy beads
for spring’s dawning dance
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for Roger, stay warm
~
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Sensuous
On a cold morning in spring for a lot of us, I thought I would heat things up with a warm Rictameter posted in March of 2017. This piece includes a link to Linda J. Wollf’s explanation and example of the poetry form.
