outdoor café
floating to my table
a bubble of laughter
Published by
Adelaide B. Shaw
Adelaide Shaw lives in Somers, NY. She has been creating Japanese poetic forms?haiku, haibun, tanka and photo haiga?for nearly 50 years and has been published widely. Her collection of haiku, An Unknown Road, won third place in the Haiku Society of America?s Merit Book Award in 2009. Her second book of haiku, The Distance I?ve Come, is available on Cyberwit.com and Amazon. Adelaide also writes fiction and has been published in several journals. Some of her published Japanese short form poetry are posted on her blog: www.adelaide-whitepetals.blogspot.com View all posts by Adelaide B. Shaw
Very, very nice Adelaide.It feels like I am present, perhaps in France, on a sunlit day with friends and coffee.
Fingers crossed this comment isn’t going under moderation too!
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I love the idea of:
“a bubble of laughter floating to my table”
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a lost cafe
returning with its ghosts
from the war
after Hopper
Alan Summers
Weird Laburnum (September 2019)
ed. Michael O’Brien
So well written—A pleasure to read this one! Thank you, Adelaide
Thank you Alan, Sylvia and Marilyn
Adelaide