Tag: seasonal poetry

Prayer –From tears to smiles—

May 3, 2023 /

Haiku and photos by Mayumi Kawaharada Winter Interminable queuesof displaced people—                                                blizzard-ridden road                                                       Mother and baby                                                        carried off by the attacks—                                       trampled winter roses                                                    War turns gentle siblings                             into crazed soldiers—                                  a frozen battlefield                                                      Soldiers loot,                                                              for their loved ones…                                                furious snowstorm                                                        A doll in red                                                                on a muddy snowmelt road —                            immobilized tanks                                                          Raging winter rain                                                      to the ashen …Read More

A Year in Review

December 23, 2019 /

a year in review — a haphazard collection of unruly short verse by Lisa Wilcut SPRING blossoms assembling to view springtime crowds below–– beckoned by sake, smoke and laughter the whole body of the bird on the ledge  vibrating with the effort of each note down to its last               …Read More

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