Toddlerhood (haiku)

for Time Capsule Haiku Challenge

By Abby SeberPublished 3 years ago • 1 min read

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Toddlerhood

Tantrum over sweets;

So ends another evening

he won’t remember.

sad poetry

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Abby Seber

Author of full-length poetry books: Brewing, All-Nighter, and Entanglements. And popular science book The Universe Untangled: Modern Physics for Everyone. Solo poems in small-press pubs. Painter and mother of 2 cutie patooties under age 3.

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