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.
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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.
Yes. I can see this.
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.
Speaking of musical haiku (a new genre, along with haiga perhaps?), y’all might find this amusing little site er, a little amusing:
http://www.blogcatalog.com/blog/songs-in-haiku
They ‘haiku’ lyrics to pop songs, ‘pon request!
suicide is painless
brings on many changes
take it or leave it
? Altman/Mandel/s?17
“Turn back, oh turn back the pages of time~! Make me a little child, just for tonight.”
Upon reading this, I long for Spring so I can throw that stone into that pond…
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
I love the progression of this. Sometimes we do wish to be elsewhere, maybe on a warm tropical beach!
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.
A great tanka!
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following
its arc to the trees
the flyball
disappears like me
to another place