Category: Tanka

parallel community brown flits across path hedge sparrow on an errand black-capped chickadee flips pine-tree acrobatics instant later disappears starlings group frantic lift and land in unison as if organized by a choreographer while I stay on the outside living parallel to seagulls, robins, flickers watch them from below I’m nonentity in their rarified community… Continue reading parallel community

in tutus pink, rose fuchsia ballerinas slim stamens en pointe pirouette as we applaud lovely summer’s brief plié © 2011 by Violet Nesdoly ******************* The July prompt at Poets Online was to write a summer tanka. The collection is up.  Summer has a lot of angles; take a look. My contribution, the poem above, is… Continue reading summer tanka