It’s just for now that
dark clouds hover. Tomorrow
sun will fill the sky.
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It’s just for now that
sun fills the sky. Tomorrow
dark clouds will hover.
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Can we find a way
to live both with and beyond
such changing weather?
JDG
Category Archives: senryu
Done Undone
Foregone conclusions
have a way of going wrong.
See Clinton 08.
JDG
Bliss
For a few hours
I whisper sweet nothings in
silence’s cocked ear.
JDG
Summer Satisfactions
Intermittent rain
this summer season – flowers
bloom and trees rejoice.
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Accepting summer
after rejecting winter –
inner seasons change.
JDG
It’s A Sign
Poets ignore those
no trespassing signs and write
their way into life.
~
Faced with bird droppings,
the poet works to turn poo
into poetry.
JDG
Nursery Whines
After the sky fell,
Chicken Little looked up, sighed,
asked herself, “What’s next?”
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“Sheep like meadows, cows
like corn, so what’s the big deal?”
says Little Boy Blue.
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“Wasn’t it enough
that I sat on that tuffet?
Why the curds and whey?”
JDG
Morning Madness
Dogs and cats and kids,
all hungry, demanding food –
morning madness reigns
JDG
Haiku and Senryu
In summer morning
mist, trees await the kiss of
slowly rising sun.
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Though some may see shapes
in those shifting morning clouds,
I see senryu.
JDG
If We But Go
Beneath the surface,
if we go deep, compassion’s
mighty river flows.
JDG
Two Senryu (a guest post by Janet Cook)
Forget or forgive?
Remember the hot stove burns,
but it bakes bread, too.
~
I’m trying to help.
Not sure what to do until
A misstep says stop.
Janet Cook
