Loneliness . . . (three tanka)

Blithe Spirit, Journal of the British Haiku Society,
Volume 28 Number 4, November 2018

Three tanka were published in Blithe Spirit this past November:

Snow Landscape by Hans Braxmeier

winter woodland

bereft of birdsong

with your passing

even clear days

are shadowed

Photo by Frantisek Krejci

together so long

we seem to finish

one another’s sentences,

fluent in the pauses

of each other’s mind

Universe by Gerd Altmann

loneliness

comes and goes,

dancing around

my mind

with two left feet