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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
World Tanka Contest 2019
falling in love under the stars elderberry clusters hang heavy with juice A love theme The 2019 World Tanka Poetry Contest, Honorable Mention http://lyricalpassionpoetry.yolasite.com/2019-world-tanka-contest-closed.php?fbclid=IwAR2Zp090J2xWe1BzwAP9EvNNq_V_POMmAbBq1xNQdweZG-gn9wesygTfXpw
Haiku Dialogue – a weathered wall
cold front on the wall between us a slow growth of moss Haiku Dialogue – a weathered wall Troutswirl, The Haiku Foundation Blog 29 May 2019 https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2019/05/29/haiku-dialogue-whats-at-hand-week-18/#comment-102505
Haiku – Stardust
floating leaves we sink into our silence Stadust Haiku Issue 29, 20 May 2019 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1isDX5Chi4Wqkflt0mwUOHfLWP3d30w16/view
Haiku – Stardust
the words you never say frozen stars Stardust Haiku, isue 28 April 2019 https://drive.google.com/file/d/15nCMwwlFVV3EIg6fqG6ktIxEyuKVlAC2/view?fbclid=IwAR0Mm9YTTUc2BnQ1Rm2lgNRWZAsrVcwgdGiZ2NSoVGkBjXxTBwr4S_lSxHM
Tanka – FemkuMag
I fill an awkward silence with small talk dead rose petals surround the flower vase FemkuMag issue 10, March 2019 https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/f4c0ea_56aed2c213fd42faa84e8fbfb70681b7.pdf?utm_source=%23FemkuMag&utm_campaign=dc969d4d97-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_03_29_03_46&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_26c80737b4-dc969d4d97-25463281
Abandon Tanka
English Original the jasmine spreads over the garden with abandon my hair unfurls unrestrained on your pillow without you The Bamboo Hut, Autumn 2016 Chinese Translation (Traditional) 廢棄的花園裡 隨處都是茉莉花 你不在 在你的枕頭上我的頭髮 無拘無束地攤開 Chinese Translation … Continue reading
Tanka – Moonbathing
the pebbles I throw into the lake sink without a ripple his cold words fall into silence © Martha Magenta Moonbathing – a journal of women’s tanka, Issue 18, Spring/Summer 2018
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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Sharpening The Green Pencil Haiku Contest 2019
sea breeze… I breathe in your accent Commentary by Jim Kacian: Everything about this poem is charming: who does not welcome a sea breeze? And what is so winsome as a foreign accent (at least when we … Continue reading →