I see your fair face
peeping from yellowed pages
of the drawing book
you once treasured so much- to
draw blue mountains in summer
winter mountains call
we scale through autumnal peaks
not sure we’ll make it
let us feel the warmth of love
once again – before we leave
my unstable hands
flick through fading memories
await your return,
paint joy with tired crayons.
It’s Christmas again, my son!

Reblogged this on Frank J. Tassone and commented:
#Haiku Happenings #3: Reena’s latest #tanka sequence for my current #haikai challenge!
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I liked the motherliness of this – one could almost say that the mother is the earth, and the son all of humanity! This is really cool.
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That is a wonderful analogy! Thanks for adding value to the piece. I would then see mountains as the final destination – capping of the journey.
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I really like your haiku and your extended poem. Well done.
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Thank you so much, Dwight!
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