Hortensia
Anderson, US
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Whitney*
The Pearl
Lost again,
a grain of sand
I can feel
myself rolling
with the waves
until I find
mother of pearl in the sea.
Return
White lilacs
in the summer
bring me back—
the moonless nights
in blackness,
when their sweet scent
crept through my open window.
First Published in the
World Haiku Review: Volume 5, Issue 1, 2005
*Whitney—an
original short syllabic form created by Betty Ann Whitney; it is
exactly seven lines long and follows the following syllable
pattern: 3, 4, 3, 4, 3, 4, 7. The Whitney was first published in
Sol Magazine.
See the Writer's Handbook.
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