3 Haiku by Sondra Byrnes: From the 100 Thousand Poets for Change Reading

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winter solstice
i chip the darkness
off my toast

Shiki International Kukai (Winter)
First Place

snowbound
a narrow road
inward

A Hundred Gourds 3:2 (March 2014)

forgiveness–
mending a broken vase
with gold

The Heron’s Nest (December 2019)

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About Miriam Sagan

I'm blogging about poetry, land art, haiku, women artists, road trips, and Baba Yaga at Miriam's Well (https://miriamswell.wordpress.com). The well is ALWAYS looking to publish poetry on our themes, sudden fiction, and guest bloggers and musers.

2 thoughts on “3 Haiku by Sondra Byrnes: From the 100 Thousand Poets for Change Reading”

  1. I really appreciate the connection between using gold to mend a broken vase and forgiveness … the idea that reaching forgiveness requires a certain kind of gentle but careful work, like the work of an artisan carefully following and fixing the crack in a vase. Wonderful thought!

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