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
Category: Tanka
summer tanka
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