Category Archives: Mothers

Daily Haiku: June 2, 2023

Posted on June 1, 2023 by Charlotte Digregorio

recovering now – a steaming mug of mum’s beef-tea by Paul Beech (Wales), Author Curlew Sunset, 2023

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Daily Haiku: Sept. 15, 2022

Posted on September 14, 2022 by Charlotte Digregorio

airport security mother passes through without looking back     by Robert Epstein (USA) Frogpond, Vol. XXX, No. 1, 2007

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Daily Haiku: Aug. 27, 2022

Posted on August 26, 2022 by Charlotte Digregorio

riverbank my mother’s waiting for me on the other side   by Eufemia Griffo (Italy) https://eueufemia.wordpress.com/2021/05/09/eufemia-griffo-mothers-day-a-selection-of-poems/

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Daily Haiku: July 6, 2022

Posted on July 5, 2022 by Charlotte Digregorio

on her birthday we bring tulips to her grave     by Kimberly Kuchar (USA)  

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Daily Double Haiku: May 30, 2022

Posted on May 29, 2022 by Charlotte Digregorio

the vase from Mother  beautiful  without flowers by Ellen Grace Olinger (USA)  

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Daily Haiku: Feb. 1, 2022

Posted on January 31, 2022 by Charlotte Digregorio

           senryu              aged mother: showing her how to do things     she taught me as a child                       by … Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, Charles Trumbull, Daily Haiku, Haiku, Mothers, Parents, Senryu | Tagged , , , , | 6 Comments

Daily Haiku: July 6, 2021

Posted on July 5, 2021 by Charlotte Digregorio

morning has broken chirping birds on branches the voice of mama     by Lisbeth Ho (Indonesia) Haiku Dialogue, June 16, 2021  

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Daily Haiku: Jan. 25, 2021

Posted on January 24, 2021 by Charlotte Digregorio

jasmine teaI cradle the bowlwith mother’s hands       by Maxianne Berger (Canada) Wales Haiku Journal, Autumn 2020    

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Free Verse

Posted on December 6, 2020 by Charlotte Digregorio

My Mother’s Skin   I am glad I loved my mother’s skin, burrowed into it when I was small. Safety there, the smell and feel of her, all mine somehow, me from her returned. We slept together when my father … Continue reading →

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Daily Haiku: Sept. 19, 2020

Posted on September 18, 2020 by Charlotte Digregorio

thinness her eyelids as I close them by Johnette Downing (USA) Frogpond, Vol. 31.2, 2008

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