open sky :: SAMVAAD/ 16th March
- sanjuktaa
- Mar 16, 2025
- 1 min read
hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Aparna Pathak
not seeing you grow up bluebell
-- Tim Gardiner
(Akitsu Quarterly Spring 2017, selected by Robin White)
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Poignant monoku with lots of dreaming space. The reader is left to wonder what happened?
About this poem,Tim Gardiner says:This was written at time when my son was growing up and I wasn't seeing him much due to the saddest circumstances. I'm lamenting missing those little bits of his childhood (he was 6 when I wrote this), like a spring flower that is here for an all-too-brief period. The passage of time and the short nature of childhood, especially if traumatic, have always been key features of my poetry. I'm so glad I wrote haiku throughout the different stages of my son's childhood as it reminds me of how our lives have changed, precious moments which may have been forgotten otherwise. The emotions still resonate today, now he's 15 and childhood is almost over and…
Poignant and beautiful.