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Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Accompaniment (WC)
(Wendy Cabell, April 17, 2024 feast day of Our Lady of Miracles (above), Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, and Blessed Mariana of Jesus. Image from here.)
Accompaniment
(a few senryu)
1.
evening argument
with Joseph, heart’s balloon deflates
greets dawn’s sunrise
2.
“I’m part bear”, he says
“and part human”, I remind
he ambles to man cave
3.
for inner sweetness
he drops honey in his tea
sticky
hands
leave
trail...
*From prompt: Write in the form of a senryu, similar to haiku but with focus on the wit and irony of human foibles rather than a focus on nature; can do traditional 5-7-5 syllable structure, or follow modern trend of flexible syllable count. From Lynn Skapyak Harlin’s Senryu workshop (Hope at Hand’s Jax Poetry Festival), April 17, 2024.
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