High Five!
Pen Paper
Cup of tea
Sit Wait
Listen!
Look!
Here she is
This wild, silky otherness
Quick!
Write it down.
written for my first Stanza meeting!
Haiku
her baby asleep a new mother hugs the silence ---------- sleepless forming the words I didn't say ---------- an old sixpence 1955 11-plus and a chipped bone ---------- laughter rolling gently down the hill ---------- deep in the temple a seated Buddha scent of jasmine ----------- cigarette lit a painted statue sits down
Marilyn Speak is a 75 year-old Grandma, who has written occasional verse over the years, and has now fallen in love with the haiku form – though not the formal sort! High Five was written as her membership ticket to the Stamford Stanza group 3 years ago, who kindly gave her a High Five for it.
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