“Comfort Food”

Comfort Food”. Got the encouragement of my publisher to write a small book of haibun, tanka and haiku. Call it that because the times need comfort foods. I can’t do much right now, but a smattering of these new forms feeds the soul.

Some New Haiku

Summer storms threaten

Gun metal skies turn to pitch

Birds shelter in place

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The air sullen, heavy

Sensing the rain being born

Grass rises to drink

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Two hawks look over

Penned chickens awaiting Fate

Dogs too hot to chase

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Dark skies are heavy

My bones answer with dullness

The sins of aging

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Black storms gather

A blessing of rain to come

Thunder rattles glass

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A murder of crows

Watch a cat passing beneath

Suddenly quiet.

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Autumn evening

The wind whips up fallen leaves

Scattering the quilts

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Ho! The ice cream truck!

Children swarm, a plague of locust

Children without cash

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Summer night brightens

Stars whisper to each other

More than grains of sand.-

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Jane kohut bartels

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