
Category: Essay


Tanka : Florence Nightingale
life’s a splendid gift
greatest things grow from smallest
discipline shapes lives
distill words into action
live your life while you have it
tanka by M. Nakazato LaFreniere

Senryu : parachute bridal gown
World War Two bride’s dress parachute silk — blushing gal survivor’s love gift senryu by M. Nakazato LaFreniere Thinking about time. This dress, because it was made of parachute silk came from a specific time […]

Senryu : aging wrinkles
aging, my back hurts
super highs, crashing angst smoothed
wrinkles, silvered, good
senryu by M. Nakazato LaFreniere
Yeah, my back hurts. My eyes are going; my hearing fading.
I remember my 20’s. The spiraling highs. Egads, the energy! Running, dancing,

Senryu : dreaming
dreaming of a poem
struggling for that perfect phrase
reaching — nooo! — it’s gone
senryu by M. Nakazato LaFreniere
Entering a poem is to enter a dreamscape. Random unrelated bits float,

Haibun : hometown
hometown, not birthplace
air force youth,moving often
home is family
senryu by M. Nakazato LaFreniere
The town I was born in, I don’t remember. Kurosu is just outside

Senryu : luck of the draw
singing on the streets,
hoping to get discovered
you-tube — fame or banned?
senryu by M. Nakazato LaFreniere

Tanka : xaeaxed?
a study proved this
your friends have more friends than you
friendship paradox
predicts, slows epidemics
does not matter who? xaeaxed!
tanka by M. Nakazato LaFreniere

Senryu : change & ambition
aspirations shift
evolving as they mature
goals attained branch out
senryu by M. Nakazato LaFreniere
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