belle de nuit by Diane Dehler

belle de nuit

droop their petaled heads

moonbathing

In long perfumed hours

of a languid night

Diane Dehler

First published in Moonbathing: a journal of women’s tanka, issue 8 Spring/Summer 2013

one filmy cloud by Diane Dehler

   

one filmy cloud

in an overcast sky

I wanted

a world of white camellias

winter love affair

Diane Dehler

First published in moonbathing: a journal of women’s tanka, issue 9, Winter/Spring 2014

100 torched gold chrysanthemums said, Princess Haiku

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just the dark
smoke of 100 torched gold
chrysanthemums
I bow to you autumn
enter a season of grief

Diane Dehler

Previously published in
Moonbathing: a women's journal of tanka