Here are three short poems from this week. Our library asked for original poems from patrons on the theme of nature, with participants entered into a raffle and having the option of their poems included with book pickups and on the library’s social media. Of course I could not re

Haiku 922

Little green fingertip
beckoning me. I whisper
Hello, daffodil

3/23/21

Tanka 251

Creeping up the wall
my green caterpillar friend
waves his stubby horns
follows a line of mortar.
Angles off. Says no goodbyes.

3/26/21

Tanka 252

Here is the paper
Here is the pair of scissors
I snip away sky
I clip around the March wind
I cut out a daffodil

3/26/21