dawn chorus starlinging me out of night terrors
(haiku first published in Whiptail 12)
Author: Debbie Strange
Debbie Strange is a tanka and haiku poet, as well as an avid photographer. Her current passion is for creating tanshi (small poem) art. You are invited to see her work on Twitter @Debbie_Strange.
refugee train
small hands starfished
against the glass
solar eclipse
the times we choose
to look away
HM, ’24 Murtha Contest
migration
the changing course
of my life
the blue hour
you slipped away
without a sound
prairie gale
the groan of a silo
holding steady
fern spores
the ellipsis after
your goodbye
A smudge
of blackbirds swirling
into evening . . .
how fluid the shape
of this sorrow
my easel stands
neglected in the corner
still flecked
with bright colors of a world
I no longer recognize
berry-picking
even our shadows
turn blue
dawn meditation
the valley surrenders
its mist
mossy log
a ruffled grouse drums
up the dawn
originally published in Frogpond 42.2, 2019
northern lights the blur of scarves as skaters pass
unmarked grave …
a thousand red maples
offer their leaves
the ocean
was in a rage last night
but today
these peace offerings
of blue mussels and kelp
bone density …
the broken stems
of sunflowers
glassy lake
flocks of snow geese
pull up the moon
I inhale
and my lungs fill up
with bees
though all hope is lost
there is still this hum
(Originally published in Hedgerow Poems, December 2016)
fall migration . . .
many wings beat
against a moon drum
liquid sun our glasses filled with dandelion wine
sere grasses …
summer threads
unraveling
haiku only published in kernelsonline, Summer 2013
sugar snow
sifting through evergreens
empty nests, full
a dragon kite
carries the sun
in its mouth