Balance

Balance is the prompt at OneDeepBreath for week 72. My clumsy newbie’s tanka, too busy, too unstill, too undistilled. But one starts somewhere. Perhaps better to call it a lyrical short, two sipped breaths.

It starts for us
when we get there
late. late coming
10 minutes
break, breathe.

A second with more balance then, in a different sense.

lecture forum
one pen and pad
per person. her son,
dapper, opens one
and

And a third response to close.

on one leg
tying shoe –
cat scamp prances