Workshop Poetry

Monday, October 3, 2022

 

I was going through some old papers and found a haiku and a tanka that I wrote at an Indiana Writers’ Consortium workshop held at Gabis Arboretum on June 8, 2018. Since they were just on a handwritten sheet, I thought I’d preserve them here.

Haiku:

Blue heron flying
Green stagnant waters below
Blue heron swimming

Tanka:

Fairies dance about
Unseen among their houses
Hiding from the eyes
Of curious school children
Who still believe in fairies

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I don’t have a photo of a blue heron, but the one at the top of this post shows a juvenile yellow-crowned heron that I saw in Costa Rica earlier this year.

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