We can enjoy this
year’s muted autumn color
or we can compare
it to the blaze of former
years and sadly find it wanting.
JDG
Category Archives: tanka
Finally
After a slow start
and in a more muted way
trees began to sing
a halting hallelujah
to a season much delayed.
JDG
A Wrong Turn
For now we’ll have to
drive a while in the wrong
direction, but stay
alert – there will be chances
ahead for course corrections.
JDG
License Plate Commentary
WHOOPTDO, it said.
Was this snark just a comment
on the general state
of things or a bored response
to this heated election?
JDG
Bureaucratic Bliss
Reattestation –
a process that attests to
the mindless triumph
of computerized glitches
over simple common sense.
JDG
Some Trees
This year it seems some
trees have slipped past red and gold
and have sought refuge
in a familiar green or
grounded themselves in bland brown.
JDG
Doggie Lament
He sniffed, sampled, cast
me a look. “Why change brands?”
he seemed to say. “Can’t
you humans let things be and
not strive for variety?”
JDG
That’ll Show Them
I did the only
thing I could when I opened
my sock drawer and found
a mouse – I screamed and said I
was going to build a wall.
JDG
Whispers of Gold
Early morning mist
wanders among Autumn trees,
whispers of golden
moments yet to come before
the long, cold claim of winter.
JDG
Megalogophile
His love of all words
sesquipedalian makes
me shake my head,
but, alas, he seldom meets
a big word he doesn’t like.
JDG
