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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lovely impressions, dear Poets!!