Daily Delights

Burritos, Wine, & Japanese Poetry

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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