Tanka Poets on Site (April 29 prompt)

a dewdrop dangling
from the tip of a petal . . .
I try hard 
not to show him
my tears



prompt: balance
See comments here.

Swimming in Lines of Haiku (I Quote, You 'Ku)

I tried my best to participate so here are a few tanka for Kirsten Cliff's quote for the day.


plucking a petal
from a budding rose . . .
I cannot help
wanting him more
too early


http://kirstencliffwrites.blogspot.com/2013/07/i-quote-you-ku-2.html

a bluejay drinks again
from an empty birdbath...
I open your closet
one more time to make sure
I remember missing you


http://kirstencliffwrites.blogspot.com/2013/07/i-quote-you-ku-day-3.html

all the beads
we used to string together
for someone else . . .
every minutes counts
in the shades of sunset


http://kirstencliffwrites.blogspot.com/2013/07/i-quote-you-ku-day-5.html

dishes still

piled up in the sink . . .

I now have

more time in my hands

to miss you

http://kirstencliffwrites.blogspot.com/2013/07/i-quote-you-ku-day-9.html?showComment=1374746184129#c4020157981485287479

after brain surgery
will he remember
how much he loves me . . .
the first thing he asks for
are ice chips


http://kirstencliffwrites.blogspot.com/2013/07/i-quote-you-ku-day-23.html?showComment=1374747524334#c5714681737075415665

revised:

after brain surgery
the first thing he asks for
is ice chips . . .
will he remember
how much he loves me

He Doodles, You 'Ku - Day 10

candle wax--

shaping her dreams

with his scent

~ 0 ~

melting candle

petal after petal

her flame dies

See doodle here.

Dedicated to My Friend, Helen

                                                                                     

A Hundred Gourds (1:2 March issue 2012)

Favorite Haiku of the Month

     The month of February has been an inspiring month with all the memorable haiku that I've read on NaHaiWriMo. Here are a couple of haiku from Alan Summers.


     this delicate rain
     the petal makes a typo
     of a gravestone date


     the rain
     almost a friend
     this funeral


     For me, these haiku evoke both beauty and grief. Even in grief, nature has its way of connecting with us.


     Alan Summers is a Japan Times award-winning writer for haiku and renga. He is also the founder of With Words which promotes literacy and literature events. If you want to read more of his works, visit his blog Area17.
     I suggest that you click these links to his Area 17 blog.


     http://area17.blogspot.com/2010/08/anatomy-of-haiku.html
     http://area17.blogspot.com/2011/04/alans-haiku-created-into-posters-at.html  
     http://area17.blogspot.com/2011/08/catch-my-haiku-on-iphone-ipad-and-ipod.html


     I'm so excited to find out that that there's a collection of haiku that can be read on the Iphone, Ipad, or Ipod touch. I should look into this and see if it's compatible with my old Ipod touch. :-)
     Thanks a lot, Alan, for sharing your haiku and for giving me all the links to your sites.