I awaken

July 25, 2025

i awaken
to the beginning
of a new dawn
breathing in
the saffron rays
of our blazing sun
naked & exposed
as when
i was first born
under
a falling star
joyful
that my soul
was riding
a blue moonbeam
straight into
the cool green
evening breeze
past the billowing
clouds
past the
milky way
immersing into
my mother’s
pure white & eager
immaculate breasts

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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