Totally Unbidden

July 25, 2024

love can find us even when we are not looking
for it, in the most fortuitous place with the most
unexpected person & at the most inconvenient time.
as the waning days & nights of our lives are slowly
settling in around our aging bodies & we are vulnerable
there it is, confronting us & we are naked, afraid & trembling.
it’s utterly unwarranted & totally unbidden. yet, it sneaks up

on us like a beggar in the night.
what is one to do?

Pamela A.Babusci

Pamela A. Babusci is an internationally award-winning haiku/tanka poet and haiga artist. Some of her awards include the Museum of Haiku Literature Award and the First Place Mount Fuji Tanka Contest (Japan). Her cover art has graced the books of Full Moon Tide, The Best of Tanka Splendor Awards, Taboo Haiku, Take Five: Best Contemporary TankaVol.1, The Delicate Dance of Wings, Chasing the Sun: selected haiku from HNA 2007 and moonbathing: a journal of women' s tanka. Pamela's haiga have been featured here at Haigaonline, and on The Haiku Foundation, Simply Haiku, Frameless Sky and numerous haiku and tanka journals.

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