a bubbly effervescence
in her voice
the stream after rain
Author: 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
outdoor café
floating to my table
a bubble of laughter
Sunday church service
holding my attention
the sun through stained glass
8
pulling weeds
from between the bricks—
this hold on life
bitter cold
numbing my mouth
into silence
wild berries
gathering
what the birds missed
yellow locust leaves
settling between the bricks
we decide to stay
almost spring
swinging my cane
to a new beat
hurricane rain
floating leaves
in the wheelbarrow
his just shaved face
the fragrant coolness
of spring