Making Amends

Moonbathing 26, Summer 2022

 

one by one trying
hard to make amends,
I separate fine strands
of webs I’ve made
to hide my mistakes

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         ‘silk’

September roses (a haiku)

 

I am blessed with another haiku published in a favorite journal I love to read: hedgerow: a journal of small poems, issue # 132

 

 

 

September roses
the stone wall
hidden between us

 

 

 

 

 

(c) 2020 Mary Kendall

 

Billowing fog (a few haiku & tanka)

 

 

Two haiku and one tanka in Kokako 29, 2018, a journal of the New Zealand Poetry Society:

 

 

where the house
once stood
only cherry blossoms 

 

 

 

billowing fog
the burden of keeping
your secret

 

 

 

rosé bottle
the forgiving vagueness
of frosted glass
the morning
after

 

 

 

 

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no attribution for this lovely picture I found online

 

 

 

Dark pebbles… (a tanka)

 

 

tanka moonbathing 16

 

Note: Published by poet and artist, Pamela L. Babusci, Moonbathing is a journal of women’s tanka.