Poetic Sketch
by Marie Bortolotto

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underfoot --
faded voices
of dead leaves

 

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under construction --
the pink Chinese Church
gets resurrected

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Poetic Sketch
by Marie Bortolotto

rain-soaked
under an umbrella
golden leaves

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Poetic Sketch
by Marie Bortolotto

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walking on sunshine
how beautiful!

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morning walk --
a melodious bird song
fills my heart

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Poetic Sketch
by Marie Bortolotto

October sunshine!
walking through a leaf storm

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Poetic Sketch
by Marie Bortolotto

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ruffled crow
on a stop sign --
red alert!


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retirement dreams -- an old man pushes a bread delivery trolley

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Poetic Sketch
by Marie Bortolotto

glittery dew --
the last rosebud
sheds tears

Poetic Sketch
Marie Bortolotto

a black crow keeps watch
atop
the pink Chinese Church

Poetic Sketches
by Marie Bortolotto

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sad memory
mother washing
breakfast dishes

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fluffy clouds
blue skies
walk onwards


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What should I do?
So many poems awaiting a voice!

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Poetic Sketch
by Marie Bortolotto


Buddhist temple
on the horizon
a mountains sits

Poetic Sketches
by Marie Bortolotto

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how sad!

last flowers of summer
turn their death masks
toward the ashen sky


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breathing in
breathing out
each day
a miracle


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lost poems --
arriving from nowhere
memory releases them
into the wordless realm


4/

searching for poems --
how many miles have I walked in these shoes?

Haiku
by Marie Bortolotto

chilling wind --
a rosebud clings
to the branch

Short Verses
by Marie Bortolotto

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fleeting moment --
I release my grasp
as
a
dead
leaf
falls
to
the
ground

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an old couple shuffle
along the path
with heavy footsteps
a stroke of insight
lightens my heart

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Short Verse
by Marie Bortolotto

autumn eve
yellowed leaves fall
this way and that
scattered thoughts
in the wind

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" Poetry is the way to live with a true and honest heart."

- Ozawa Roan (1723 - 1801) from Unsung Heroes of  Old Japan
  written by Isola Michifumi

Ozawa Roan was a waka poet and scholar of Japanese classical
literature, who lived during the mid-Edo Period

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Short Verses

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Reflecting on this fleeting
world
makes me sad --
like rain from the sky
my tears falling

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How enviable
true to their hearts
they bloom
such fleetingly, gracefully
falling cherry blossoms


~ Rengetsu, Japanese Artist, Poet, Nun (1791 - 1875)

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