Here is the poem for April 5. To celebrate National Poetry Month, I am posting a short poem, a question and prompt every other day during the month, starting on Easter Monday. Mostly they will be poems by my daily companions, the ancient Japanese and Chinese poets. I will do the prompt myself, either in prose or poetry, and invite you to join.

April 5, 2021

Only a memory!
A neighbor’s tasty rice cakes
At our gate as before
--Issa

Do you like this poem? Why or why not? How did this poem make you feel?
Prompt: use Issa’s first line to capture one of your memories

Only a memory!
my mother
waking before dawn
to knead fresh dough
for biscuits.
--Old Monk