John McManus is 32. He live is Carlisle, Cumbria, England with his wife and children. He is the former Expositions editor for A Hundred Gourds, and is the founder and current editor of Frozen Butterfly. He was awarded a Touchstone Award from The Haiku Foundation in 2012, as well as winning the annual Heron's Nest Readers choice awards. His haiku have been published in over 20 different journals and he was one of the poets featured in New Resonance 8 (Red Moon Press).
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Certainly a mother has to have, within her armoury, a cache of hard and sharp words to protect her flock. Sometimes alas the mother turns on a member of the flock and that is a time to watch out.
A darkly fun juxtaposition of fingernails and fingernail moons with words getting sharpened.
Arresting! :)
powerful!
a good one :)
Thank you snaky, Irena and Marie for taking the time to comment on my poem. I'm glad you all got something from it.
Great juxtaposition! The final line came as a wonderful surprise.
Ah ha – the matriarch has spoken! Good one John :)
mariono
fingernail moon
my mother sharpens
her words
—JOHN MCMANUS
Certainly a mother has to have, within her armoury, a cache of hard and sharp words to protect her flock. Sometimes alas the mother turns on a member of the flock and that is a time to watch out.
A darkly fun juxtaposition of fingernails and fingernail moons with words getting sharpened.
Alan