Haiku & Other Poetry – Page 29 – Tina Stewart Brakebill

For Sue (a Haiku)

March 31, 2021 Tina Stewart Brakebill

Unmet but felt met

Leaving this world as she lived

Lifting with her words

Author’s Photo

I never met Sue Vincent, but when I learned she was ill, I wept. And when I logged into Word Press today (after several days absence) and learned she was gone, I wept again. Tears are blurring my view even now. We often never know the ways we affect other people’s lives but I’m glad I got to say “thank you” before she departed. She made me believe that my silly little poems sometimes mattered. And her work was beautiful until the very end. I hope she knew how much she mattered. If you have not, take the time to read Swift Passage.

Like Sue, it’s beautiful.

Haiku & Other Poetry, tutto e niente

dare to live (a haiku)

March 23, 2021 Tina Stewart Brakebill

future paths unknown

obscured by the veil of time

still, we dare to live

Image credit: Eric Muhr@Unsplash

Thanks to Sadje’s WDYS Challenge for the beautiful inspiration.

Haiku & Other Poetry, Travel, tutto e niente

I remember Traveling (a haiku)

March 22, 2021 Tina Stewart Brakebill

sweet recollections

sunlit views from my window

la strada awakes

ITALY LAUNDRY

Thanks to Andrew and his Monday Washing Lines challenge for giving me a reason to reminisce about traveling and revisit old pictures.

This was the actual view from our apartment in Rome on our first trip to Italy. Oh sweet sweet memories!

Haiku & Other Poetry, tutto e niente

the promise

March 9, 2021March 9, 2021 Tina Stewart Brakebill

impatient to shine

sunlight assails the night sky

a promise fulfilled

Thanks to Word Craft Poetry for the inspiration. For our synonym only challenge I’ve used impatient for eager and promise for hope

Haiku & Other Poetry, tutto e niente

the day after you left (a tanka)

February 16, 2021 Tina Stewart Brakebill

to defy the dark

I stand on the precipice

heart beating in time

as destiny’s reflection

brightens the murky waters

waterfall-4751586_1920 Image by Michael Bußmann from Pixabay

Thanks for the inspiration to Sue’s Tanka Tuesday Challenge. This is a bit of a companion piece to this morning’s piece for Sadje’s What Do You See challenge: the night before you left.

So visit it as well if you’d like. 🙂