dawn chorus starlinging me out of night terrors
(haiga)
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
(haiga)
solar eclipse
the time we choose
to look away
(haiga)
migration
the changing course
of my life
(haiga)
the blue hour
you slipped away
without a sound
(haiga)
prairie gale
the groan of a silo
holding steady
(haiga)
fern spores
the ellipsis after
your goodbye
(haiga)
A smudge
of blackbirds swirling
into evening . . .
how fluid the shape
of this sorrow
(haiga)
my easel stands
neglected in the corner
still flecked
with bright colors of a world
I no longer recognize
(haiga)
berry-picking
even our shadows
turn blue
(haiga)
dawn meditation
the valley surrenders
its mist
(haiga)
mossy log
a ruffled grouse drums
up the dawn
(haiga)
northern lights
the blur of scarves
as skaters pass
(haiga)
unmarked grave …
a thousand red maples
offer their leaves
(haiga)
the ocean
was in a rage last night
but today
these peace offerings
of blue mussels and kelp
(tanka/haiga)
bone density …
the broken stems
of sunflowers
glassy lake
flocks of snow geese
pull up the moon
(haiga)
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
(haiga)
liquid sun our glasses filled with dandelion wine
sere grasses …
summer threads
unraveling
sugar snow
sifting through evergreens
empty nests, full
a dragon kite
carries the sun
in its mouth