tanka

[Lake]

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Early Spring

the grass pushes
through the melting snow
as the breeze blows
listening to the singing birds
I miss your spring verse


Snow

white, white again
a sky of powders sprinkles
on the black soil
a gush of emotion
bursting out


Easter Day

fresh wind flirts
this long-awaited sun
my legs race
along a gurgling creek
leaving winter behind
.
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the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry -- Billy Collins

[Lake]

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you won’t know
till you become a mother
the tender feeling
her eyes moistened
at her child’s first cry


a Cornell mom
whose kid and money
go to Cornell
when her kid comes back
where … the return of money


helpless on the couch
my once vigorous father
points to the flowers
that unfurl their petals
as dewdrops evaporate


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the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry -- Billy Collins

[Lake]

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a ball pen scribbles:
for better or worse –
you and me
you and
me

(minimalist)


along the wall
on the carpet, a wet stain
grows larger as winter deepens
   day by day, an old heart
   gradually filled with mildews

(a pairing of strophe-antistrophe components)


chirping, chirping 'loud
birds calling for their lost mate
touched by their sharp cry
the girl opened the cage and
set the wounded sparrow free

(5-7-5-7-7 formal pattern)
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the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry -- Billy Collins