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Senryu Series 11 1.Senryu Series 11 by `Laurence55
election day
choosing the devil
I know
2.
first date
her parents question
our future
3.
road trip
the kids unpack
a squabble
4.
massage therapy
another old knot
of heartbreak
5.
deep recession
I add more spice
to the ramen
6.
televangelist
available on Itunes
salvation
7.
job well done
from the boss...
blue moon
8.
18th birthday
a postcard
from the army
9.
cemetery
even here
the poor section
10.
midnight diner
everyone feeds
the jukebox
11.
haunted house
we let the youngest
go first
Tanka Series 13 1.Tanka Series 13 by `Laurence55
no closure
after your death
only poems
unfinished
on the dresser
2.
taking in
our delinquent son
a leaf
more golden
as it falls
3.
evening jog
out of the mountain
I arrive
at the edge
of moonlight
4.
mulling the question
can poetry stop a tank?
the potential
of a butterfly
at rest
5.
another cut
in teacher wages
one thrush
never making it
to flight
6.
distant cries
of southbound geese
I too
still stuck
in old patterns
7.
endless sermons
on the road to God
I follow
the shimmer
of a cockroach
8.
so many words
for winter sorrow
yet another
blank face
from the moon
9.
unable to afford
her dre
February 2009 Haiku-Wrimo 1.February 2009 Haiku-Wrimo by `Laurence55
winter rain-
an old pot fills
with moonlight
2.
sunrise...
birdsong falling
from the mountain
3.
just in time
for the newborn-
snow flurries!
4.
gang signs
on the old church door...
winter deepens
5.
stillness...
a cloud
of white breath
6.
deep
in the raven's cry-
southern drawl
7.
midnight walk-
between each star
the cosmos
8.
resting awhile
on Issa's death poem-
the fly
9.
morning thaw-
the bulldog's growl
softens
10.
loneliness...
leek soup cold
in the crock pot
11.
crows
becoming
dusk
12.
one cloud
the shade of mango-
winter's end?
13.
begging
in her
Sta.sh
