“Goodbye,” #Senryu, #NaPoWritMo

Posted byColleen M. ChesebroPosted inNaPoWritMoTags:, , ,

My dear friend, Debby Gies’ husband lost his battle with cancer on Wednesday. Today, I attended his funeral, which was live-streamed from Toronto. I leave you with a somber senryu:

swift passage—
saying goodbye
to an old friend

©2021 Colleen M. Chesebro
Image by Myriams-Fotos from Pixabay

Published by Colleen M. Chesebro

An avid reader, Colleen M. Chesebro rekindled her love of writing poetry after years spent working in the accounting industry. These days, she loves crafting syllabic poetry, flash fiction, and creative fiction and nonfiction. In addition to poetry books, Chesebro’s publishing career includes participation in various anthologies featuring short stories, flash fiction, and poetry. She’s an avid supporter of her writing community on Word Craft Poetry.com by organizing and sponsoring a weekly syllabic poetry challenge, called #TankaTuesday, where participants experiment with traditional and current forms of Japanese and American syllabic poetry. Chesebro is an assistant editor of The Congress of the Rough Writers Flash Fiction Anthology & Gitty Up Press, a micro-press founded by Charli Mills and Carrot Ranch. In January 2022, Colleen founded Unicorn Cats Publishing Services to assist poets and authors in creating eBooks and print books for publication. In addition, she creates affordable book covers for Kindle and print books. Chesebro lives in the house of her dreams in mid-Michigan surrounded by the Great Lakes with her husband and two (unicorn) cats, Chloe & Sophie.

17 thoughts on ““Goodbye,” #Senryu, #NaPoWritMo”

  7. My heartfelt condolences to you and the family, Colleen. Your thoughts reflect the profound sadness of parting. And yet, you have given us the beautiful word – friend.

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