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Monthly Archives: May 2018
Tanka – Red Lights
I remember discovering the sea for the first time floating in a car inner tube with my father in his happy days in the attic I discover memories hidden away the last vestige of scent from a … Continue reading
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Tagged attic, beach, car inner tube, childhood, family, father, floating, happy days, hidden, holiday, last vestige, Martha Magenta, memory, poem, poetry, pressed flower, Red Lights Tanka Journal, remember, scent, sea, tanka
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Tanka – Eucalypt
bindweed slowly chokes the elderberry how your lies slowly stifled the love between us Martha Magenta Eucalypt: A Tanka Journal, May 2018 https://jthorndyke.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/eucalypt-order-form-2017.pdf
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Tagged bindweed, chokes, elderberry, Eucalypt: A Tanka Journal, lies, life, love, Martha Magenta, nature, poem, poetry, relationship, stifled, tanka
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Tanka – Ribbons
I try to make sense of my half-forgotten past I begin to resemble the driftwood cast out of the sea Ribbons Tanka Journal Winter 2017 http://www.lulu.com/shop/tanka-society-of-america/ribbons-winter-2017-volume-13-no-1/paperback/product-23086031.html
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Tagged cast out, driftwood, half-forgotten, life, make sense, Martha Magenta, past, poem, poetry, rememble, Ribbons Tanka Journal, sea, tanka
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Tanka – Eucalypt
Japanese maple spreads elegant hands in the arboretum we walk in peace on a red carpet Martha Magenta Eucalypt: A Tanka Journal, issue 23 November 2017 https://jthorndyke.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/eucalypt-order-form-2017.pdf
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Tagged arboretum, autumn, elegant, Eucalypt: A Tanka Journal, hands, Japanese maple, leaves, nature, peace, poem, poetry, red carpet, seasons, tanka, trees, walk
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Haiku – Stardust
purple rain a starling flies through the rainbow Martha Magenta Stardust Haiku, May, 2018 http://stardusthaiku.blogspot.co.uk https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YONmad-uA-2lE1J4uYaJ9Z9W0UvkW7V4/view
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Tagged birds, flies, haiku, Martha Magenta, nature, poetry, purple rain, rainbow, Stardust Haiku, starling
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Haiku – Wales
crescent moon— the arch of catkins over the stream Martha Magenta Wales Haiku Journal, Spring 2018 https://www.waleshaikujournal.com/spring2018
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Tagged arch, catkins, crescent moon, haiku, Martha Magenta, nature, poetry, seasons, stream, Wales Haiku Journal
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Haiku – Hedgerow
false spring the rose quartz stays on a shelf Martha Magenta hedgerow #123 (the spring print issue, 2018) https://hedgerowhaiku.com/the-print-issues/
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Tagged crystals, false, gemstones, haiku, hedgerow a journal of small poems, Martha Magenta, poetry, quartz, relationships, romance, rose, seasons, shelf, Spring
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Haiku – Ephemerae
small cuts— the flowers I give mother just to remember coffee maker the baby learns to gurgle © Martha Magenta Ephemerae Vol 1,A April 2018 ISSN 2516-1767
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Tagged baby, coffee maker, Ephemerae, family, flower, gurgle, haiku, learns, life, Martha Magenta, mother, nature, poetry, remember, small cuts
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Haiku
“Martha Magenta re-read a swansong in Bristol, U.K. It’s an “odd phenomena” admits Luciana Moretto in Treviso, Italy, “but I’m sure that my departed brother often comes to visit me.” The haikuist wrote a book of verse about his … Continue reading
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Tagged Asahi Haikuist Network, bereavement, best friend, David McMurray, fading, haiku, hydrangea, last letter, Martha Magenta, nature, poem, poetry, remembrance, spirit, swansong
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