Tom Quigley Poet Tanka

Class of 85

Excited bustle
What we were missing returns
Unexploded clan
Heart’s origins, simple times
Uncomplicated soul bonds

Cresting apogee
Highest point of our proud arcs
Yet farthest away
From yore’s endless sun-drenched days
When life besotted senses

Half our lives behind
Yet still yearn to reconnect
Fertile fundament
Simplest sense of our place
Roots gulp moisture from first soil

Time’s stern visage clear
Eternal shared history
Now awake within
As if only yesterday
Not ten thousand days ago

5/23/16
© Thomas W. Quigley

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John Hamilton July 19, 2016 at 2:17 PM Class of 77 for me, great nostalgic write! A quadruple tanka now that's an accomplishment!

Andrea Dietrich May 23, 2016 at 3:50 PM Hmmm, 10,000 days.They pass VERY quickly!!! I enjoyed reading this. Try 14,000 days. Unless my math is wrong, that's where I am at!! Tom Quigley May 23, 2016 at 8:54 PM 7,000 days didn't seem like too long ago...Thanks, Andrea!