Today is Quadrille Monday at dVerse. What is a Quadrille? It is a form unique to dVerse Poets pub consisting of exactly 44 words (excluding the title) and the chosen word. Today Victoria is in charge of the Pub and has given us the word “poem” or variants of the word. Come join us for these lovely short poems.
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Leaf Hagaki*
I carefully prick one word poems
on fallen leaves, letting the wind
take them where it will –
Postcards of joy, love, tolerance, hope.
I don’t expect a reply
but I let them loose anyway.
The silence between the falling of the leaves
is deafening.
* hagaki – Japanese for fragments of writing or postcards
kanzen sakura 