This is not what I would consider a haiku or tanka but
influenced by the haiku form. These will be short verses which I will post periodically.
This one is dedicated to Hurricane Isaac which reached the Saint Louis area in
the form of rain. By the time Isaac got here, it was a tropical depression. The
gray skies made me think of the components of depression.
End of the Drought
sorrow returns
in a cold, gray rain
from an anonymous cloud
__________________________
The onset of depression can come without any warning and
sometimes without the person’s being aware of what caused it. For me, the “anonymous”
becomes a pivotal part of depression’s sequence—that of feeling blue but not
being able to pinpoint why.
