let the tears fall down
for the optimism of
2003
... and occasional Tanka... and Haibun. Started after a competition on the unbound.co.uk blog (see #1 and #2). Mostly actually senryu , I think. This year attempting to publish a Haiku every day - 365 Haiku a Day. For good or for ill, I always aim to stick rigidly to a 5-7-5 structure - forgive me if I have counted the syllables wrong, often they are how I have said, or thought, them in my head rather than their official number.
if, if, if, if i…
hundreds of kilometers…
parallel, apart.
From words on page 39 of Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Three Hainish Novels by Ursula K. Le guin (Gollancz, 1966/2015) - from the first novel in the book, Rocannon's World.