Showing posts with label father. Show all posts
Showing posts with label father. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

My First Tanka on a Tanka Journal - Skylark Journal's Inaugural Issue

p. 49

the many Christmas eves
my father left for
another home
I'm not surprised to see
flowers on his grave


Skylark: A Tanka Journal 
summer 2013


*This inaugural issue, edited by Claire Everett, is now available for purchase at amazon.com. Click here.


Friday, August 24, 2012

Seam

     August 24 NaHaiWrimo prompt is "seam", provided by Susan Murata. It's one of the hardest prompt for me. 
  

I restitch the seams
of my father's trousers . . .
flowering vines
   

    Comments on my haiku may be found here. Click this for more information on the 31 Different NaHaiWriMo Prompters in August 2012.