100 small-bite poems for a fast-moving world.
Piccola Poesie offers 100 small, flavorful poems—haiku, senryu, tanka, and American Sentences—each a quick bite of humor, insight, and seasonal observation. These poems explore our connections to nature, to each other, and to the everyday moments that surprise us. Like macarons, they can be savored one at a time or devoured by the handful.
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“A delightful collection with an impressive variety of feeling, emotion, and topic—all expressed through such short, tight bites of poetry. Relatable, humorous, and beautifully crafted.”
—Judge, 27th Annual Writer’s Digest Self‑Published Book Awards
On Writing Piccola Poesie
Piccola Poesie grew out of my love for small forms—haiku, senryu, tanka, and American Sentences—and the way they capture the quiet moments that shape our days. These poems move through the seasons, exploring our relationships with each other, with nature, and with the everyday objects that anchor our lives. Writing them was an exercise in attention: noticing humor, wonder, and the tiny questions that make us pause, like what cats are really thinking or why winter pulls poets outdoors. —Constance Brewer
Poem Excerpts
HAIKU/SENRYU
still pond
a lotus blossom
blooms alone
the crabapple tree
bore small fruit
in your absence
on the calendar
my dead mother's birthday
circled in blue
TANKA
years of buttons
in a glass Ball jar
the blue one on the top
so far from the blue one
on the bottom
all around the house
grey with white trim
to blend with neighbors
out in front spring flowers
roar like thunder
AMERICAN SENTENCES
I open my eyes in dark and wait for the dark to become less dark.
New phone set to generic ringtones, I'm not really technical.
The young and beautiful things at the gym ignore my wrinkled old ass.
More poems and collections are always in the works—thank you for reading.
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