Tea Spoon

It has turned into

a test of wills to remove

teabags from the pot.

Sharing success or failure

is becoming commonplace.

Skat@2022

My mother

She had a saying

for every occasion, like

that, “Who’s like you since

Leatherarse died?” Wait! Maybe

that was one of my father’s . 😉

Skat@2022

Today my mom would have been 93; she had about as many sayings as that too. 😂

Ninety-five:

You’d be today, if

Eighty was not when you died.

Remembering you

this day, on your natal day.

Love, from your darling daughter.

xoxo

Skat@2022

Can It Be Spring?

Birdsong throngs the air;

Chipmunk has arisen—plump

From his warm storehouse—

All willing to forget such

a cold and nasty winter.

Skat@2022

Nyet, nyet Soviet*

If we can’t stop the

bald despotic Putin, can

we at very least

Cut off his coffers? (Yes, that’s

a euphemism.)

Skat@2022

*In the 1980s, a Canadian musician wrote this song. The lyrics popped into my head while composing this tanka.

https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/B-B-Gabor/Nyet-Nyet-Soviet-Soviet-Jewelry