Tanka: Anonymous DNA

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I walk this fair earth
a step along winding paths
my lone DNA
passing anonymously
to a distant family

copyright Francis Barker 2019

Haiku: My DNA

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Celt Angle and Dane
Norman and Angevin too
Family branches

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Haiku: Good Earth

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I prepare the soil
sow a selection of seed
Nature does the rest

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Haiku: Don’t Believe a Word

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I don’t believe it
Take this absurd farce away
this mere shadow play

copyright Francis Barker 2019

Tanka: Changes are Coming

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Change is coming fast
Can you feel it in the air?
Cycles in the sky
empowering us below
in shortened critical times

copyright Francis Barker 2019