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waving goodbye
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Thursday, June 15, 2023    Rated "G" by the Author.
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This haiku sequence is about parents and children, about being a child and being a parent.

tiny hands reach
for mother’s breast
full moon


pollywogs in clear water
my first child
in my father’s arms


starting college
only one of us
waving goodbye


spring cleaning
nowhere to put
the kids’ childhood


calloused hands
the carpenter smooths
his daughter’s gown


a perfect spiral
from my aging father
autumn afternoon


her widowed voice
breaking
the news


wind
through holes
in my father sweater


my late mother’s birthday
cherry blossoms
choke the stream


old marble
streaked with rain
my father at mother’s grave

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 Reviews of "waving goodbye"
Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on June 17, 2023
This sequence is filled with sadness brought about by your parent's deaths. The emotion is strongly felt. I remain 1300 miles away from both my parents when they died, unable to go there and tend to them at all. So I don't feel that great emotion even though I have many memories of how my mother and my father both treated me and confided in me so differently.

Ron

Reviewed on June 16, 2023
When I write Haiku poems, I like to write in the traditional 5-7-5 format.

I don't think these are Haikus you have written, I think these are Senyru poems you have written as Senyru deals with emotional expressions and Haiku deals with scenic expressions.

The traditional format for both Haiku and Senyru are 5-7-5, which I would follow every time I write.

Your stanzas are interesting to catch my attention as each expresses the phase in life that we may have gone through at one time or another. I enjoyed this.

Thank you for sharing!

Sandie



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