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One Man’s Maple Moon: Shimmer Tanka

  English Original   sometimes a shimmer on the stair a trace of your scent lingers in my memory and fills the air I breathe   First published: The Bamboo Hut, Autumn 2016   Chinese Translation (Traditional)   有時候 樓梯上的微光 … Continue reading

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Haiku – Frogpond

  time travel the perfume of a pink rose   Frogpond 42.2 2019 http://www.hsa-haiku.org/frogpond/2019-issue42-2/index.html

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Haiku Dialogue – a hand-me-down toy

  the warm gaze of an old brown bear . . . Grandma’s kindness   Haiku Dialogue – a hand-me-down toy Troutswirl, The Haiku Foundation Blog 17 April 2019 https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2019/04/17/haiku-dialogue-whats-at-hand-week-12/?fbclid=IwAR0_Pzs-rpbrMJpu0fdHHkf3es7cM9WvLiHHuxSY-oTeiGvHE4LkIxIISh4

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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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Haiku

fading asters the small favours I remember   © Martha Magenta   Frogpond 41.1 • 2018 http://www.hsa-haiku.org/frogpond/previousissues.html http://www.hsa-haiku.org/frogpond/2018-issue41-1/index.html

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Haiku

  quarter moon the forgotten fragments of her life Martha Magenta   Stardust Haiku Issue 12 – December 2017 by Valentina Ranaldi- Adams (ed) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NBNVfkOeQnZi4qu0Gki7pFaGV2KwbR2X/viewa

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Senryu

  coins in the well the depth of my desire   fireside mystery she reads it again for the first time   second-hand shopping I catch my reflection in a window   © Martha Magenta Prune Juice, A Journal of … Continue reading

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Senryu

  vanishing species the things we did before the internet   supermoon— neighbour in the window stripped to the waist     pub scrimmage Shirley Bassey songs from memory     brexit he tells me to make my own coffee … Continue reading

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