Melinda J. Irvine is an Australian writer, poet, and blogger living between the Philippines and Australia. Mel is adopted mum to Jerry, a Filipino boy she met in 2015 while volunteering after Typhoon Yolanda. All the money she earns as a freelance writer and author get her one step closer to legally adopting Jerry — plus helping the other kids from his village go to school.
like bold ink scratchings
haiku ancestors, unknown
bird songs are yet heard
Audax scratchings quasi atramento
Haiku et maiorum suorum ignotum
carmina sunt avem tamen audisti
Scratchings as bold ink
Haiku Poetry and those
of their own ancestors are pardoned
However, bird songs are heard
© 2017 Melinda J. Irvine
