riptide / we won’t go back
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Julie Schwerin
Julie Warther Schwerin served as Midwest Regional Coordinator for the Haiku Society of America (www.hsa-haiku.org), is an associate editor at The Heron's Nest (www.theheronsnest.com) and was instrumental in establishing The Forest Haiku Walk in Millersburg, Ohio (https://www.innathoneyrun.com/open-air-art-museum/haiku-walk/) and the Seasons of Haiku Trail at The Holden Arboretum in Kirtland, Ohio. (http://www.holdenarb.org/seasons-of-haiku-interpretive-trail/) View all posts by Julie Schwerin
I love this one!
Special.Very nice…
This is quite scary…I can hear the urgency and determination to hold your ground against nature's force.
Thanks,All. I am particularly grateful to the editors for including this poem today – Election Day. We must not go back! Please vote!
the riptide faces
to this rivers hearty flow
a tidal tamper
__ Thank you Julie, my river flow imagination was stirred by such a "natural" face to face rip-tide. "Should I have scribbled 'tamper' or 'temper?"
Voted_! :<) _m
Love this Julie. It’s so powerful.
Perfect!!!!
thank you, Julie!
thank you, tiny words!