Somonka Challenge: 1

As well as the November Poem A Day Chapbook Challenge at Poetic Asides, I am doing their recent Somonka Challenge. A somonka is a pair of tanka, written as love poems in dialogue.  In these I take both roles, and was imagining Andrew as the second speaker in each.

At Night 

At night alone

I reach for you in thought.

And then I weep --

you've gone far past my reach, 

beyond all hope of touch.

I hear your thoughts,

I see you reach for me.

Oh do not weep!

I'm just a little distance

and the veil is thin.

Rememberings

rainy night
I cuddle in bed
with my cats
remembering you
warm in my arms

this clear night
in the bright moonlight
I wake
remembering nights
I shared with you