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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Haibun: Take My Lips

  I’m in Acker Bilk country, Pensford, Somerset. I’m freewheeling downhill on my bike, high on adrenalin, rapidly accelerating, and approaching a bend in the road and a brick wall. Acker Bilk’s house is on the right – but which … Continue reading

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