Marjorie Buettner
One More Year
The starlings are swarming overhead circling again and again over my home. The moon, once full, is on the wane. I’m a year older they tell me but I don’t feel it just yet. Only my granddaughter while embracing me repeats: “Grandma I don’t want you to die.”
I tell her with all the seriousness I can muster, nor do I grandchild, nor do I.
collecting shadows the willow tree by the lake
About the Author
Marjorie Buettner has two books of poetry published by Red Dragonfly Press: Seeing it Now (Haiku and Tanka) and Some Measure of Existence (haibun) which won the Haiku Society of America book award. She lives in Chisago City, Minnesota.
Very moving. Love the haiku and the way it relates.
Thank you!
Very nice. But maybe –
the willow tree
by the lake
collecting shadows