ACUTE

by Barbara A Taylor




acute trumpitis  
the doctors’ surgeries
are overflowing

"Each day demands that I write and that my fingers touch and feel the earth." Barbara A Taylor's free verse poems, renku, haiga, haibun, award winning haiku, tanka, and other Japanese short form poetry appear in many international journals and anthologies on line and in print. She lives in the Rainbow Region, Northern NSW, Australia. Diverse poems with audio are here and here.

A SIGH OF RELIEF

by Barbara A Taylor


a sigh of relief
big bird takes off
back to the same


Barbara A Taylor’s Japanese short form poems appear in international journals and anthologies on line and in print, including Haigaonline, Eucalypt, Atlas Poetica, The Heron's Nest, Frogpond, Kokako, Simply Haiku. She lives in the Rainbow Region, Northern NSW, Australia.

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