One evening this week, four girlfriends met at a backyard picnic table. After we ate burritos, drank wine, and caught up, we spent 10 minutes writing Tanka poems. Like haikus, these five-line syllable-based poems are about love, sadness, nature, and seasons). Here’s what came out:
A pale moon above
Half full in a blue, blue sky
We scurry below
Its serenity calms, waits
At last, I feel the quiet
~Allison DeJong
Broken in the house
Noise machines and lifeless piles
Spiralling twisting
Green leaves floating on small stems
Through a window through a wall
~Heather McKee
A lonely creature
Seeking safety from the cold
Found pieces of you
Strewn about the car’s engine
And built a nest of your fur
~Ali Soloman
My sister’s grey truck
Clean and empty, a blank slate
Adventuring free
My messy car, full of life
Weighted down by parenting debris
~Brianna Randall
Daily Delights are short snapshots about exploring with kids: quick, gritty, hand-written, and heartfelt, these little ditties help capture life’s moments — the good, the hard, the perfect, the poopy.
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