spare change
found in his pockets . . .
this too short life
Published by
Margaret Dornaus
Margaret Dornaus holds an M.F.A. in literary translation from the University of Arkansas, where she received the Lily Peters Poetry Translation Award as well as being twice nominated for an Associated Writing Program essay-writing award. Winner of the Tanka Society of America?s 2011 International Tanka Contest, her tanka, haiku and haibun have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals, including: A Hundred Gourds; Atlas Poetica; Modern Haiku; Moonbathing; red lights; Ribbons; and others. Her first book of poems, Prayer for the Dead: Collected Haibun & Tanka Prose, received a 2017 Merit Book Award from the Haiku Society of America. View all posts by Margaret Dornaus
Very beautiful, Margaret . . .
Thank you, Marilyn . . .
__ As a youngster, if I offered my opinion, Maw or Paw would quickly say "we don't need your two cents_!" Now, as I visit their distant grave site, I lovingly leave two pennies on their headstone; they know then, that I still offer my two cents. Margaret, I thank you… memories.
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Thank you, Magyar, for such an interesting response.
Oh how moving, Maggie. x
marion
Thank you, Marion.
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spare change
found in his pockets . . .
this too short life
—MARGARET DORNAUS
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Very sad, that money is seemed to be so vastly superior to living a truer life. And that there's enough money to make everyone comfortable, but it's taken to make those less confident "more secure and powerful".
dandelion fluff
Batavia lettuce is the color
of money
Alan Summers
Publications credits: Asahi Shimbun (2010)
Yes. True.
Yes, a moving and well-written poem by Margaret. I remember preparing my father's clothes for donation. Blessings, Ellen