withered chrysanthemums —
my father gives me
a compliment
Author: Norah Johnson
Norah Johnson is a writer, artist and yoga teacher. She lives in New Zealand and has been writing haiku for the last year. She is trying not to let haiku take over her life.
windflower
the sun and moon
on a single stem
weeping plums –
another fight
about nothing
(previously appeared in the May 2014 issue of a fine line, the magazine of the New Zealand Poetry Society)