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Tag Archives: memory
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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Tagged air, breathe, Chinese translation, grief, haunting, lingers, loss, love, Martha Magenta, memory, NeverEnding Story, One Man's Maple Moon, poem, poetry, relationship, scent, shimmer, sometimes, stair, tanka, The Bamboo Hut, trace
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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
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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Tagged bear, brown, family, gaze, gift, grandma, haiku, Haiku Dialogue, hand-me-down, inherited, kindness, love, Martha Magenta, memory, old, poem, poetry, relationships, The Haiku Foundation Blog, toy, Troutswirl, warm
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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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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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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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Tagged asters, fading, favours, Frogpond Journal, haiku, Haiku Society of America, life, Martha Magenta, memory, nature, poem, poetry, relationships, remember, small
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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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Tagged ageing, forgotten, fragments, haiku, life, Martha Magenta, memory, mind, nature, poem, poetry, quarter moon, Stardust Haiku, Valentina Ranaldi-Adams
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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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Tagged age, coins, dementia, depth, desire, family, fireside mystery, humour, life, love, Martha Magenta, memory, mind, poetry, PRUNE JUICE Journal of Senryu, reflection, relationships, second-hand shopping, senryu, window, wishing well
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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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Tagged before the internet, Brexit, coffee, doppelgänger, failed haiku Journal of Senryu, friends, humour, internet, life, Martha Magenta, memory, neighbour, people, poetry, pub, pub scrimmage, senryu, Shirley Bassey songs, stripped to the waist, supermoon, vanishing species
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