Adelaide B. Shaw

Changing the Playbook

There are days when I have high energy. I do the laundry, clean the fridge, balance the checkbook, buy groceries. And then there are days when a life alone is all I feel.

a foggy morning
in his blue flannel robe
strong black coffee

soft guitar
the November sun reaches
my window seat

I pinch, pull and push myself into doing something, anything to quicken the hours. Adjust and move on. 

village ramble
I kick a pebble
down the sidewalk

café lunch
hot pickles
add zest

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About the Author

Adelaide B. Shaw lives in Somers, New York.  She has been creating Japanese poetic forms for fifty years. Her books, Travel Souvenirs, An Unknown Road and The Distance I’ve Come, are available on Amazon. She posts published work on her White Petals Blog.