a stone
next to a frozen pond
I long to skip
to another time
another place

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Don Miller

Don Miller lives in southern New Mexico, USA. He has been writing tanka since the early 1980s, and has had his tanka, tanka sequences, tanka prose, and other short-form poetry published on a somewhat regular basis in various print and online journals since the early 2000s.

9 thoughts on “”

  1. Listen to the song “Another Time Another Place” by U2 off of their album ‘Boy’ from 1980…good compliment of haiku and music I think.

  2. Yes, Rhoda Galgiani, and skip it over the water – like in Dambusters!

    spring pond
    looking for skipping stones
    not so the frog

    [sparkling spring pond
    looking for a skipping stone
    OMG! a frog?]

    ? ?17

  3. I love the progression of this. Sometimes we do wish to be elsewhere, maybe on a warm tropical beach!

  4. It all started many, many years ago at the first soccer game (futbol, whatever). Two guys were sitting in the stands talking to each other and one said, "Geez, this is sure boring. I could go for a beer and a hot dog." The other guy replied, "Brilliant!" and sports concessions were born.

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