empty

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granddaughter, haiku, life, loss, love, poetry, sadness

baby granddaughter
visit ends, waves and kisses
such an empty space

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Routine

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fish, haiku, life, nature, poetry

On piscine expectations

a morning’s routine
before that first cup of tea
the pond, hungry fish

journey

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haiku, life, poetry, time

stranger in hurry
same journey, different path
think I’ll take my time

Sad

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baking, haiku, life, poetry, sourdough

sourdough starter
caught myself calling it ‘She.’
need to get out more.

Cool

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breeze, flowers, haiku, life, nature, poem, seeds, thistles, weather, wildlife

a lazy tumble
thistle seed hitches the breeze
gentle, unrushed, cool

bubbles

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beauty, damsel fly, garden, goldfish, haiku, life, nature, poem, poetry, pond, summer, wildlife

On pond watching

blue damsel flies dart
exquisite, fragile hunters
goldfish blows bubbles

Nap

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birds, death, haiku, life, nature, poetry, sparrows

On trying 4-5-4

fledgling sparrows
life gets underway
a napping cat

Tides

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death, haiku, jellyfish, life, nature, poetry, tides, wildlife

a long, sandy beach
littered with dead jellyfish
Where the tides take us

ache

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haiku, life, loss, people, poetry, relationships, sadness

On observing a sadness

With the ache of memory
she suffered his weight
the insufferable boredom
the physical presence
she had not carried it well
neither her heart
nor her back
remained unbowed

Gone

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fiction, haiku, life, taxi

On a little fiction, fill in the blanks.

He thought he knew her
Sunlight through an open door
Retreating taxi