PAD Day 18: Another Hay(na)ku

Today's prompts from Poetic Asides and NaPoWriMo: (1) Write a "message" poem, and (2) write an "ode to life’s small pleasures". I think that getting a kind or loving text or Facebook message from someone you're fond of can make your day, so that is my "small pleasure". I enjoyed writing a hay(na)ku sonnet the other day (see Day 10), the form created by my friend Vince Gotera, and I went an extra step by giving it a rhyme scheme (xxA xxA xxB xxB CC, but the first four stanzas could work just as easily as ABAB or ABBA). Today I tried another one:

PM

my

day unravels

like a sweater

until

your message

makes it better

you

send me

a virtual hug

it

sweeps despair

beneath my rug

while we're apart,

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