No longer content
to stand silent through the mist,
the trees sway and sing,
filling the summer air with
a midnight hallelujah.
JDG
Category Archives: tanka
All The Buzz
An outdoor cafe
where bees and butterflies dine –
a mid-day repast
for all who find their way to
these sun-lit golden tables.
JDG
Midsummer Night’s Dream?
He goes with her to
an outdoor Shakespeare play. She
goes with him to a
monster truck rally. Is this
much ado about nothing?
JDG
Silencers
Second Amendment
rights are used to silence First
Amendment rights as
greed and ignorance hold both
reason and good will hostage.
JDG
For Just Now
As the sun starts its
long arc upward, the morning
silence holds, and in
its bowl-shaped hands I float.
For now. For now. For just now.
JDG
Caught In Passing
She sits alone and tugs
at memory’s fraying cloth.
Enough may remain
to wrap herself in borrowed
warmth as others chat nearby.
JDG
National Hide And Seek
Searching for answers
where none can be found because
we want to avoid
asking the uncomfortable
questions and begin from there.
JDG
Beyond Rhyme And Reason
Even a small tree
can be in the wrong place at
the wrong time. Nearby
trees, larger and more full, were spared
lightning’s sharp and sudden strike.
JDG
photograph by Sami Wells
Wise Seeing
Confucius on jade:
“Its beauty does not hide its
flaws; its flaws do not
hide its beauties.” Oh if we
could but see the same in us.
JDG
A Wave To Summer
Bachelor Buttons
grin as they usher summer
in and coax lovely
Queen Anne to wave her lace at
bees and all their other kin.
JDG
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