Linked Forms, Sequences and Contrapuntal Poetry

sweet rain
on my flower bed
I welcome home
its early spring
scent

green buds
the rebirth
of a garden

Sakura shoots
covered with 
March snow
will a painless future
be possible?

parasites
the loss of an orchard
crop

how many 
years ago
the bloody soil
around my roots
pain recalls pain

strife planted
I yearn to be rain-drenched
with healing

       Mariko Kitakubo
       Deborah P Kolodji

more than
30 years ...
a thorny road 
brings me here,
endless future

the water shoot
grows taller
fresh rose buds

is there 
an air pocket?
swinging 
high up in the sky
free flight

starling murmuration
the playground 
empty now

a vortex 
revolves around 
Polaris...
sleeping cat 
on top of the slide

backyard sprinkler
grandchildren jump
over the jets

Mariko Kitakubo
     Deborah P Kolodji