When a bud opens
Is it truly in flower
If no one is there?
–David Forbes
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Gilligan’s Island
Isolated family
Save me professor
–Theresa Holmes
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empty main street in
Falmouth only things missing
are the tumbleweeds
–Michael Francis Oliviera
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The Big Wave
I paddled out far,
I am ripping the big wave.
I am good at it.
–Gray Waldman, Chilmark School kindergartener
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My sewing machine
no longer receives a rest
just mask after mask
–Rita Zienkiewicz
The Poet’s Corner is seeking haikus related to this era of coronavirus. The haiku is a short poem of just three lines, the first and third of which have five syllables; the middle line has seven. Poems from Island poets and writers are welcome. Send your work to Poet’s Corner facilitator Laura Roosevelt at ldroosevelt@gmail.com.
Perspective
I’m home all day now,
So my dog thinks that Covid
Is a gift from God.
Covid is a gift from our Creator.
As is everything else.
A traditional Japanese haiku is a three-line poem with seventeen syllables, written in a 5/7/5 syllable count.
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