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Morning Dogs: choka
The scrabble of claws across the linoleum: waking with the dogs. At the first hint of morning, they are ready to go. Forget your sleeping. The moment your body stirs, their insistence starts. Outside, outside! they clamor, until you do … Continue reading
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Tagged children, choka, daily poems, dogs, domesticity, Japanese verse forms, morning, poetic forms
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New Day: a choka
A new day is born: look, how the world starts again; its still form awakes from an evening’s slumber and shakes the sleep from its eyes. In the quiet hours before its hum becomes roar, the whole of life breathes: … Continue reading
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Tagged breath, choka, daily poems, dawn, Japanese verse forms, newness, poetic forms
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