Category Archives: small poems

Chekov’s birch trees (haiku)

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Presence,

Issue 68, November 2020

sleepless nights

     Chekhov’s birch trees

become our woods

Photo by Peng Chen on Unsplash

My thanks to Peng Chen for this beautiful photograph of white birch trees.

Winter nights (haiku)

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Presence Issue 68, November 2020

 

 

winter nights—

dreaming of blackbirds

on snow

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My thanks to the editors at Presence for publishing this haiku.

 

 

 

 

 

September roses (a haiku)

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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

 

ghosting myself . . . (tanka)

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Ribbons 16:3 (fall 2020)

 

 

 

ghosting myself
by looking away . . .
     the mirror                        
no longer a friend
I care to see

 

 

 

(c) Mary Kendall, 2020

 

 

Note: This pretty hand mirror was crafted in Germany and sold on Etsy.com.

snow day

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The Heron’s Nest, XXII.4, December 2020 published one of my haiku:

 

 

snow day–
a crackle of fire
in our stories

 

 

 

 

 

Prayer (a tanka)

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So careful a gardener, he patiently weeds between the pebbles.

 

This tanka is dedicated to my dear husband, Ritchie Kendall.

 

each day you kneel
and work in the garden
I can think of nothing
more prayer-like
than this

 

 

Published in the Tanka Society of America Members’ 2020 Anthology.