elizabeth odders-white

Rumination:

The Curiosity

family's black sheep.

Menacing Mount Should

obscures the sacred blooms of

the Garden of Is.

Well, as any of you who are reading my haiku blog have certainly realized, it's become more of a haiku-of-the-10-days or maybe even a haiku-of-the-month blog and less the haiku-of-the-week blog that was originally advertised.  And that's okay.  Because, really, isn't i...

Both of my kids started school today (one a senior in high school and the other a junior in college), so in honor, I'm posting two poems on the back-to-school theme.  I think that they form bookends of sorts.  The first is not a haiku, but a tanka, a similar Japanese f...