I ... entered the poem of life, whose purpose is ... simply to witness the beauties of the world, to discover the many forms that love can take. (Barabara Blackman in 'Glass After Glass')

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1 December 2011

Other side of the glass: November tanka 2011

on his balcony
cool breeze on a warm spring day
entertaining friends
the young man smiles as he sings
of ageing and loneliness

8/11/11


when visitors come
my cat waxes voluble
greeting them at length
loud conversational mews
complaining she’s underfed

15/11/11


‘Must be getting old.
I just can’t raise it tonight.’
How astonishing —
at 82 years 9 months
and fresh home from hospital.

22/11/11


window-frog
half the length of my thumb
pale belly
green toe-pads like pin-heads
other side of the glass

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‘write of Wild’
others raised leopards
alI I saw
was a tiny frog
high up my window

29/11/11
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2 comments:

  1. Brian Miller1 December 2011 at 14:47

    love the contradiction in the first, the smile and the context of song...the third made me smile...

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  2. Hedgewitch1 December 2011 at 16:48

    These poems are every day kitchen herb strong. They speak of life lived every day, realizations of aging and the ever hunger of cats lol.

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