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tiny poems for Mother’s Day

By David A. Giacalone

Head over to the f/k/a Mother’s Day Haiku Collection (originally posted May 10, 2007), if you’re looking for haiku and senryu for a Mother’s Day card. There are dozens of poems (not all sappy or saccharine), including this pair:

orig. haiga at MagnaPoets (May 10, 2007)

grayskies
on mother?s day -
grandma?s favorite park

poem: david giacalone; photo: arthur giacalone

i follow her recipe,
but something?s missing?
mother?s day

??. by ed markowski

Here are three from the new edition of Upstate Dim Sum:

calling home
the color of mother’s voice
before her words

??????? by Hilary Tann - Upstate Dim Sum (Vol. 2008/1)
orig. pub. The Heron?s Nest IX:4; also “dust of summers: RMA 2007?

watching a rerun
my granddaughter
in my daughter’s arms

……… by Yu Chang - Upstate Dim Sum (Vol. 2008/1)
orig. pub. Frogpond XXXI:1 (Winter 2008)

winter sky –
an empty nest
left behind

. . . . by Tom Clausen - Upstate Dim Sum (Vol. 2008/1)

Full post as published by f/k/a . . . on May 07, 2008 (boomark / email).