so much surprising . . .

My two youngest grandchildren during their visit last month;

being modern children, they are looking at an electronic device.

I never ask them to smile for the camera, so I get images like this one!

butterflies

leaving their cocoons

open their eyes

to so much surprising 

newness

--Ed Bremson

from The Best of the Five Line Poems 2012,

edited by Ed Bremson, Kindle location 17.

This is a small book of  selected 5-line poems 

which were posted

on the Facebook Groups

"Five Line Poems" and 

"Tanka Poets on Site" in 2012, and offered 

as an Amazon Kindle Book for 99 cents.

If you like short form poems and enjoy writing haiku

or other examples, you might like tanka, too.

This small collection makes a good introduction,

and may inspire you to write some of your own.