Today’s prompt was to write a tanka, which is a Japanese short poem, usually with five lines following a syllable pattern of 5/7/5/7/7.

1. Donna

A Salford street; red

bricks and grey tarmac. Always

between my house and

yours.  Pink T-shirts, white leggings.

The colours of the nineties.

2. Rick

Sitting on the steps

drinking post-rave milkshakes, we

talk of life, love and

everything else. Two hippy

kids waiting for the sunrise.

3. Bebbo

Saw you on the bus

a few years later; you looked

thin and carried a

heavy sarcasm.  I wish

I could have helped you, my friend.