Category Archives: Mary Kendall poetry

dreams lost in dreams . . . (three haiku)

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Three haiku were also published in Presence, Issue #62, 2018:

 

1.

 

dreams lost in dreams wild poppies

 

 

Field of Poppies, Photographer Unknown

 

2.

 

“Snow” by gookingsword (Pixabay)

 

 

 

deep in winter

abandoned nests

and forgotten songs

 

 

 

3.

 

waking from a dream

the night winds

unsettle the moon

 

 

Photo by Kenrick Mills on Unsplash

 

 

 

Ice ferns . . . (tanka)

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       Presence Issue #62, 2018

 

 

scraping ice ferns

off the windows

of our old jalopy –

such fragile beauty     

soon pushed aside

 

 

Photo by eddy on ‘Unsplash’

 

 

The old dog . . . (tanka)

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Tanka Society of America 2018 Members’ Anthology:
Of Love and War and the Life In Between

 

 

almost toothless

the old dog sleeps

by the fire . . .

the peace of knowing

you are there

 

 

 

This poem is dedicated to all beloved, faithful dogs for the  pure joy they bring.

 

 

Black feathers . . . (two tanka)

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Skylark, Tanka Journal 12,
Winter 2018 (6:2)

 

 

 

black feathers

scattered

under a bush—

the unspoken truth

gone forever

 

 ~

 

 

in an old book

a letter, ‘address unknown’

a million miles away

a new star is born,

another dies

 

 

Indigo ink . . . (tanka)

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Moonbathing, A Journal of Women’s Tanka,
Issue 19, Fall/Winter 2018

 

 

 

indigo ink

on vellum paper—

all those dreams

of making a different life

for myself