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May 16, 2025  

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Snapshot, 18th September 2003

Sometimes I think the Haiku/senyru form and my Father belong together. His short term memory is so short now that he could not cope with any poem longer. And it is in this tiny form that I can most easily both capture and bear the pain of his aging so cruelly.

 


 


 


my father bent,

frail white hair drifting

        - late summer breeze


 


 


 

Norm milliken - on May 18 2009

That is poignant and beautiful at the same time.


Hoersch Joanne - on May 18 2009

This is absolutely lovely.


Shannon McEwen - on May 26 2009

I agree, this is beautiful, the image is very clear in my mind. 

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