Poetry Corner: Between the Waves

Tangles over ripples (Photo – Photo by Tom Clausen).

POETRY CORNER

– 12/16/15

Tomislav Maretić

solar eclipse –
the song of warblers
ceases
as the twilight
appears around us

Tomislav Maretić, who lives in Zagreb, Croatia, is an infectologist at the HIV Ward of the University Hospital for Infectious Diseases. He lives in the little hillside village Vrapce with wife Ana, four children and a tomcat. He has been writing and publishing haiku and tanka internationally for 30 years.

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Jennifer Thompson

on the brick
in my hand
lands a butterfly…
was I building or removing
my walls

Jennifer Thompson lives in West Virginia where poetry abounds.”

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Photo – Kathabela Wilson

Michael Dylan Welch

winter rain…
the spaces between ocean waves
closer together

Michael Dylan Welch is poet-laureate of Redmond, WA. He’s a renowned poet, teacher and leader of communities of haiku poets. This poem was a gift to Kathabela in honor of her mother’s recent passing after difficult and unusual times.

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