Category: Haiku & Other Poetry

Haiku & Other Poetry, tutto e niente

the bells of spring

Tina Stewart Brakebill

As I say below, this piece was written originally on April 9, 2020 for Sue’s WritePhoto challenge. Today seemed an apt time to revisit it. Thanks to Fandango’s Flashback Friday Challenge

a shower of blue

upon a blanket of green

spring’s carillon song

blue

Thanks Sue. Visit her for details on the #writephoto challenge and other great pieces.

Haiku & Other Poetry, tutto e niente

For Sue (a Haiku)

Tina Stewart Brakebill

Unmet but felt met

Leaving this world as she lived

Lifting with her words

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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, Travel, tutto e niente

I remember Traveling (a haiku)

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!