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Sally Biggar
Sally Biggar lives in the mid-coast region of Maine. in 2010 she began writing short-form Japanese poetry (haiku, senryu and tanka) and to occasionally participate in The Haiku Foundation's renku sessions. She was included in Haiku 2024: 100 notable ku from 2023. Most recently her poems have appeared in Akitsu Quarterly, Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, cattails, eucalypt, Kokako, Petals, Poetry Pea Journal, the art of tanka, The Heron's Nest, and tinywords.
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excellent, love this!
Fine, Sally!
__ Ah, those magic of books with real paper pages, as an older person I see nothing better and your verse fully explains their portable importance. _m
beach book
with too many periods
grains of thought
A whole summer’s worth of memories and doings falling out from between those pages… This is lovely!
Terrific imagination!
This made me smile and keep on smiling. And there's so much back story packed into these few words: lazy reading days on a beach holiday. I could almost smell the suntan oil, feel the sun on my shoulders!
Nice poem, I liked it!
afternoon waves
the falling sun
shadows the sand
My thanks to everyone who has commented; I appreciate your remarks very much.
Wind blew roughly in
knocking brass bells from silence
then placing them back
Love the concrete element in this, Sally!
marion
very beatiful dude, let's go!
rain pachinkos
neon signature:
good noodles here
Wonderful!!!
Ah, used to be plagued by overdue books! So often one year that I raided my various penny bags and would spend two or more minutes feeding the library machine. The librarians hated it, but at least I was putting money back into the libraries which are being rid of by our current governments.
That was my old local library, and this is from a library in another city:
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library café–
we swap lost key stories
as my coffee cools
Alan Summers
Publication credits: Presence 32 (2007); Tinywords (2007); The O’Keefe Brief, O’Keefe Library at SAU, St Ambrose University, Iowa, U.S.A. (2007)
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nice
nice post
wow, it's fantastic
love it much
thanks so much
Ah, used to be plagued by overdue books! So often one year that I raided my various penny bags and would spend two or more minutes feeding the library machine. The librarians hated it, but at least I was putting money back into the libraries which are being rid of by our current governments.
Re-turning the book
To renew our empty shelves —
You brought back the beach