This was a project I did basically during the pandemic. I started writing a poem a day. Once ‘real life’ started again it got harder to write everyday, which is interesting.
I have started to edit some of these mostly the kids poetry. I think there might be enough here for a book. We shall see.
I make no claim that much of this is “good” poetry. But I do make the claim that I loved doing it and I learned something and some of it makes me cry.
The Way Forward
Sometimes standing still,
stopping to hear the inside,
starts the way forward.
something new - the senryu
I am the haiku,
perhaps the most popular
of all the poems.
How do you know me?
Count first to five, then seven,
back to five...the end.
I should talk about
nature. But today, I am
breaking all the rules.
Here is a secret.
In truth, I am called senryu.
You can look me up.
Just because I’m nice —
here is a great article
about me, senryu.