Meadow frost…
Category Archives: Mary Kendall poetry
Memory’s Cup
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Four Winter Haiku by Mary Kendall
How lovely to find out that Miriam Sagan has posted my Four Winter Haiku on Miriam’s Well.
night snow
boughs dreaming
of first blossoms
fog filled woods~
even the winter moon
has lost its way
a winter walk
footprints
tell no tales
the blue moon
silently closes the door
upon the year
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First published Poets Online
© 2009 Mary Kendall
Later used as lyrics in “Winter Moon” by Paul Carey, a piece for women’s chorus in 2011.
(Posted on her blog, A Poet in Time, 2015, http://www.apoetintime.com)
A flash of gold…(tanka)
It is always an honor to have a poem appear in Moonbathing, A Journal of Women’s Tanka.
Issue 15
Fall/Winter 2016
Edited by Pamela A. Babusci
Searching for a tiny heart beat… (tankart)
Published in CATTAILS, September 2016
A flurry of poems…
The fall issue of cattails is out at last. Due to a big switch around of editors, the September issue was delayed and is now published in December. What a big issue it is, full of so many poems to read. Many of my favorite poets are in this issue and there are some who are new to me still to be discovered.
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I have two haiku included in this issue:
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first blossoms –
I tell myself this year
will be different.
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daybreak …
the birds wake us
song by song.
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and a few senryu:
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long yawns …
breathing in
his boredom.
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zafu zabuton zazen zzzzz
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plus one tanka:
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long ago I heard
the sound of wuthering wind
blowing through the night –
a bleakness so forlorn,
a loneliness bereft of words.
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My thanks to all the editors of cattails for their hard work. I cannot begin to imagine the number of hours it takes to put together something this substantial.
A Poet in Time 