Tanka: Mercury Ascends

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Go spring heeled Hermes
chase Phoebus around the sky
my functioning mind
Bless you for your position
when I was hurled in this world

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Haiku: Northern Myths

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Catch the aurora
I ask what it’s all about
The hub of wonder

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Haiku: Steadfast Moon

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Moon over the fields
stay my changing steadfast friend;
you’re there just for me

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Tanka: Cool at Dawn

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Awake at half three
in the night’s listless silence
Birdsong greets the light
of imperceptible dawn
into the fresh cooling room

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Haiku: News Blues

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News is not the news
it’s there to give you the blues
to cough up your ‘dues’

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