Dreams

a white butterfly
dancing
through a cloudless sky -
more and more
my dreams are filled with you

tanka

Music

the music of your presence
lingers
long after
you have gone...
autumn sun

tanka

Spring Moon

spring moon -
how sweetly
my heart
aches
as it sings your name



Previously unpublished

A Thousand Pictures...

a thousand pictures
and still
I cannot say
how much
I love you

Gusts No.18 Fall/Winter 2013

clouds bleed
the dream soaked silence
of first light -
would I really be me
without you

Skylark - A Tanka Journal V1 N1 Summer 2013

by moonlight
she read the poem
of me
page
after burning page

black sheep -
that's what you called
the parts of you
you couldn't love
in me

red lights Vol.9 No.1 January 2013

almost lost
among the shifting hues
of dusk
the faint calligraphy
of swans

red lights V9 N1 January 2013

'2012 Love Tanka Contest' 2nd Place

disappearing
as moonlight laps
against the shore...
all of you
all of me

2012 Love Tanka Contest Winners

clouds and swans
giving shape to the river...
without your words
how would I ever have learnt
to fly

for Hortensia Anderson

Blithe Spirit V22 N3 August 2012