Teacup Tanka (Day 1045)

Languid whorls of steam

Honey-drizzled summer scents

Eyes closed, breathe and sigh

Winter’s edge gives way to spring

Time travel in a teacup

(c) 2019, by Hannah Six

Image: Mary Cassatt, Afternoon Tea Party (1891),

drypoint, aquatint, gold paint (print) 

Travel Tanka (Day 791)

Below, blue snow clouds

Folded paper mountains sigh

Sun glints on silver

We settle back into sleep

Evening arrives twice today 

(c) 2019, by Hannah Six

Spring Tanka (Day 787)

Pollen gilds the breeze

Silently, pink petals fall—

Drifting, candied snow

 

Distant peaks cloaked in pure white

Still lost in dreams of winter

(c) 2019, by Hannah Six

Original photo: US BLM

Tanka for Day 773

Listening for snow

Gray sky an empty mirror

Underfoot, spring stirs

Frost dreams reveal memories

Tide of songbirds waxes, wanes

(c) 2019, by Hannah Six