Claudette Russell is a retired high school English teacher who lives with her husband in Goodwin State Forest in Hampton, Connecticut. Her work has appeared in various print and online journals. She also collaborates with her husband to create haiga.
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I enjoy your work, Claudette, & feel we have a lot in common. For starters, I am a retired editor of college textbooks living in NYC. More to the point, I am a poet who paints in both words & pictures. Years ago I had one haiku accepted by Tinywords. Perhaps I'll try again.
Being a writer can be tough, and we all need encouragement. All I can say is enjoy the challenge, write hundreds of drafts and keep working on them, moving them up and down a document of draft poetry, when you decide if they are close enough to submit.
There's an amazing archive of work on tinywords to study. Look forward to seeing your work!
And also packing the unfamiliar, and certainly unpacking the long forgotten. I have three apartments worth and two offices worth of stuff in a small garage and squeezed into my current abode. :-)
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Forgotten rain
the wedding ring left
in a doll’s house
Alan Summers
Publication Credit: ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK (Japan May 30, 2014)
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So simple and utterly convincing! Lovely.
I enjoy your work, Claudette, & feel we have a lot in common. For starters, I am a retired editor of college textbooks living in NYC. More to the point, I am a poet who paints in both words & pictures. Years ago I had one haiku accepted by Tinywords. Perhaps I'll try again.
Georgia, by all means submit to tinywords again. You're missing out on all the fun :)
Thanks, Claudette, I do need the encouragement, & some fun.
Best wishes,
Georgia
Yes, do submit again! :-)
warm regards,
Alan
Thanks for the encouragement. I need it.
Warm regards to you as well,
Georgia
Being a writer can be tough, and we all need encouragement. All I can say is enjoy the challenge, write hundreds of drafts and keep working on them, moving them up and down a document of draft poetry, when you decide if they are close enough to submit.
There's an amazing archive of work on tinywords to study. Look forward to seeing your work!
warmest regards,
Alan
Found; old jewels once forgotten; gained mood.
Jewels… a metaphor, for all values of that… from the past.
__Nifty_! _m
Loved this one!
Excellent poem. Reminds me of many a move.
Thanks to all who commented.
Beautifully imaged.
And also packing the unfamiliar, and certainly unpacking the long forgotten. I have three apartments worth and two offices worth of stuff in a small garage and squeezed into my current abode. :-)
.
Forgotten rain
the wedding ring left
in a doll’s house
Alan Summers
Publication Credit: ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK (Japan May 30, 2014)
.
Wonderful poem, thank you
Love this! There is a lot of narrative in it.
marion
mulberry tree
from the open window
our subsongs