Tanka on Tuesday: October 2009

 4/10/09
   
dragonfly's wings flap
causing storms across the world
they'd have us believe
internet's even faster
is this chaos or theory?


6/10/09

warm day already
the grey cat curled on my bed
stretches out purring
I decide to stay longer
stroke her and open my book


13/10/09

From the low vantage
above the storm-damaged beach
the sea, my old love,
lately appears unfriendly
surging in rougher, closer.

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Orion

The sky warrior’s
belt and sword are clear to see
turned upside-down –
the friendly southern image
a domestic cooking pot.


14/10/09 See Climate Change Tanka (previous post)


20/10/09

Those smiling snapshots
chubby tot, eager young man
are from long ago.
Now he glowers from photos.
The child in my mind is gone.


27/10/09

after the thunder
a return to calm sunlight
I’m dazed and blinking
thinking of a troubled man
who may never find such peace