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Published in red lights, volume 18, no. 2, June 2022
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with healing hands
placed over my heart,
I hear its whispering
voice between beats—
forgive, forgive, forgive
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Category Archives: small poems
Lucid dreaming
Brass Bell June 2022
Theme: One line haiku
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lucid dreaming wild-eyed pansies glancing back and forth
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Note: All pansy pictures are taken from Pinterest. No specific photographers were listed.
Dark morning & wild winds
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Kokako #36, Spring 2022
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It’s always a joy to have the New Zealand poetry journal, Kokako, publish some of my poetry. For their spring issue, they chose a one-line haiku and two tanka. I hope you enjoy them.
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seabirds drift on thermals—night becomes day
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cassia, lady slippers,
dutchman’s breeches, rue –
my garden becomes
the one circle of friends
I find it hard to leave
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dark morning
filled with wild winds
that blow the birds awake
& by the crows’ swift,
and sharp reply
Inner Life . . . (tanka)
The third (and last) tanka published in the latest issue of Gusts:
does inner life
start or end in the heart
I heard it for the first time
in a deep red canyon,
that distant river of me
GUSTS no. 35, Contemporary Tanka,
Spring/Summer 2022 Tanka Canada
Imagination . . . (tanka)
Universe by Gerd Altmann
A second tanka published in the spring/summer issue of Gusts:
imagination . . .
the only place it’s always
safe to go and wander,
just the songs of stars
and sweep of ice-drifts
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GUSTS no. 35, Contemporary Tanka,
Spring/Summer 2022 (Tanka Canada)
Spring’s soft greening (tanka)
Like so many other people, the year and a half pandemic has thrown my sense of time way off. I’m so far behind in posting newly published poems on this blog that I find myself now playing catch up. I am both honored and happy to have had such fine journals select some of my work to publish in 2021.
both of us relieved
we made it to this side
of the pandemic –
falling back in love
with spring’s soft greening
Published in Ribbons, Tanka Café, Spring 2021
A Poet in Time 