Marilyn Fleming

[Wales Haiku Journal @WalesHaiku]

There is so much packed into this #monoku, a real treasure from @mflem9811 about the magic of the cycles of life.

You'll find this #haiku featured in our Winter Journal, available here ⬇️

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#tanka #5lines

eons before
your were born
even then
I chose you
to be my mother

Ribbons Tanka Cafe winter 2020

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#haiku #2lines

kanji for winter—
black twigs on snow

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#tanka #5lines

six pulls-six gongs
of the morning bell
lingering
his warmth
on the pillow

Blithe Spirit 30.2 2020

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#tanka #5lines

I loved
her more in dying
then when
she was alive—
dried thyme

Ribbons Spring/Summer 2020

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#haiku #3lines

sustained
note of Santana—
wind through the knothole

Frogpond Spring/Summer 2020

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#haiku #3lines

sibling rivalry—
your cloak
in my dagger

Cattails Apr 2020

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#haiku #3lines

pine needles
threading spider silk—
morning dew

Cattails Apr 2020

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#haiku #3lines

this sense
when first we met—
blue hyacinth

Stardust April 2020

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#tanka #5lines

on the glass pane
one tiny feather
trapped
the blurring smudge
of her memory

Cattails April 2020

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#tanka #5lines

when I'm with you
I swallow my tongue
the way
a red necked grebe
ingests its own feathers

Cattails April 2020 (Editor's Choice)

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#haibun #haiku

the wind spoke
and the grass danced—
song of the meadowlark

Presence #66
embedded in haibun "To My Grandson"

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#3lines #haiku

crow prose
frozen in the oak—
notes I should have sung

Presence #66 2020

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#haiku #3lines

autumn breeze—
a ginkgo leaf levitates
eye level

Presence #66 2020

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#tanka #5lines

the way
you love me
even though
you know I'm not
who I pretend to be

Presence #66 2020

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#haiku #3lines

dream in a dream—
stepping through
a crack in the mirror

blithe spirit 29.4 2019

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#haiku #3lines

summer drought—
sucking stones
we quench our thirst

blithe spirit 29.4 2019

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#tanka #sequence

Seaworthy

if he finds
his goal is the sea
what of his fire—
water is like that
it takes what it wants

to be the sea
and take what I want—
no more
would you turn
your back on me

Presence #65

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#haiku #3lines

my love—
does the mourning dove
choose to coo

Presence #65 2019