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Wednesday Haiku

Wide smile gazanias
Hearts bared in winter greeting
Memories of Clarice

(c) Merlene Fawdry

Tuesday Senryu

Tuesday afternoon
In the clear light of day
A wash of colour

(c) Merlene Fawdry

Sunday Senryu

Surpliced in vain hope
Candle lit in offering
Pray for survival

(c) Merlene Fawdry

Saturday Senryu

On a Bass Strait night
Foghorns pierce the ghostly mist
An unseen passing

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Sunday Tanka

Devonport awakens
To a slow moving spirit
A river of cars
Slow to a sleepy trickle
At the fruit fly confluence

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Monday Chinese traditional short form poetry

Old man and his dog
On suburban footpath
Young boy on skateboard
A collision of age

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Tuesday Senryu

Living writer's week
Promotion of words and life
Not for the deceased

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Wednesday Cinquain

Kamikaze birds
Dressed to impress
Swoop, swipe, swoon
A symphony of movement
Mating ritual

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Thursday Haiku

A rainbow of colour
Takes flight from red flowering gum
Feathered promises

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Friday Senryu

Beneath the blankets
Under coverings of white frost
Hope springs eternal

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Saturday Senryu

The book launch conflicts
With anti pulp mill rally
I read on in hope

(c) Merlene Fawdry

I have managed to meet this personal challenge, begun on 11 July, to write and post one short form poem a day but, as I will be away from my computer until 24 August, the best solution seemed to be to post in advance.

I will also use this post for a last minute plug for the Tasmanian Living Writer's Week events I will be in attendance at:

Glenbothy Winery, Relbia, 1.00 Sunday 17 August for book readings by me, Loretta McCarthy, Jacqueline Lonsdale Cuerton & Frank Madill with music and nibbles in between.

And..

The launch of my new collection of poetry, Discourse with Walls, written in March when I was Writer in Residence at the Gorge Cottage under the Launceston City Council's ASrtist in Residence Program. The launch will be at the book fair on saturday 23 August at 11 am, upstairs Stories Bookstore, Cimitere St, Launceston.

Merlene

Friday Haiku

Sun winks behind clouds
In flirtateous abandon
The earth smiles coyly

(c) Merlene Fawdry

Thursday Senryu

Fatherless children
Separated from mothers
Blossoms in the dust

(c) Merlene Fawdry

Wednesday Senryu

Words shoot from pistols
As lexiconic bullets
A story evolves

(c) Merlene Fawdry

Tuesday Senryu

Art class on Tuesday
A confusion of colour
Enlivens still life

(c) Merlene Fawdry

Monday Tanka

The twenties flapper
In charlestonian fashion
Bobbed, cloched and fringed
The epitome of deco
An era long mourned

(c) Merlene Fawdry

Sunday Senryu

On any sunday
A priest beholds empty pews
Miracle of faith

(c) Merlene Fawdry

Saturday Haiku

A blossom opens
Promising health and hope
Renewal of life

(c) Merlene Fawdry

Friday Cinquain

Magpies wait
In formal attire
Poise, preened, proud
A strutting of feathered glory
Black on white

(c) Merlene Fawdry

Image from: John Gould (1804-81) The birds of Australia 1840-48. 7 vols. 600 plates Artists: J. Gould and E. Gould; Lithographer: E. Gould.

Thursday Haiku

A murder of crows
Voices raised in vigilance
Defend urban territory

(c) Merlene Fawdry

Australian Raven Image from: John Gould (1804-81) The birds of Australia 1840-48. 7 vols. 600 plates Artists: J. Gould and E. Gould; Lithographer: E. Gould

Wednesday Tanka

Empty sketchbook
Endless vistas
Visions, vagaries, voids
A colour blend of mind and soul
Blank pages

(c) Merlene Fawdry

Tuesday Senryu

Sweet little dancer
Pirouettes with toes pointed
Legs stretched tutu wide

(c) Merlene Fawdry