M Kei or anyone who can identify this, please don't be shy.  M Kei wrote a tanka
that I stumbled upon in cyberspace.  Here is a paraphrased version:


i'm drawn to you
because your darness
is unlike
my own


If anyone or M Kei can post the exact wording, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thank you.

Tye

yes

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While reading a beautiful poem about the goddess, I noticed that the
advertising in the bar above the email, trying so hard to be
appropriate...wasn't

deep  thoughts

reading  sacred texts

screen ad flashes

one day sale only

Goddess bras 50% off



© 2009 Sandy Vrooman

  C&C appreciated.

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thank you Paul Im glad you liked it now that it has come back to me I shall
keep it..the others I sent Ill never see again lol...

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>> lightning
>> smell of ozone..
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>> glitter of
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>> http://hawaiian-poet-tree.blogspot.com/
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--- In Tanka@yahoogroups.com, "shanna" <shanna@...> wrote:
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> lightning
> smell of ozone..
> the southern sky turns blue
> streaking hairline fractures
> purge the heavens..
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> comet dust
> rains down
> and lights
> the night
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> http://hawaiian-poet-tree.blogspot.com/
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Hi Shanna,
I find the second poem here simple and breath taking.

Paul
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> crippled
> like a sapling
> slumped over
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Beautiful Gene,

What's left unsaid speaks volumes.

an old one of mine

a delicate flower
battered and bruised
by the wind -
these past few months
that's how I've seen you

(MET V3 N4)

I felt they worked together somehow!

Best wishes

Paul (Smith)

broken
she came to me
crippled
like a sapling
slumped over

Gene

above the clouds....
hemisperic music
clean tasting air ....
many windowed house
where the wind lives

shanna
http://hawaiian-poet-tree.blogspot.com/

http://www.photoshow.com/watch/RQ9Ec3Kj

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lightning
smell of ozone..
the southern sky turns blue
streaking hairline fractures
purge the heavens..

glitter of
comet dust
rains down
and lights
the night

shanna
http://hawaiian-poet-tree.blogspot.com/

http://www.photoshow.com/watch/RQ9Ec3Kj

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The muslim doctor
says "we" love death
more than "you" love life....
"I" respect  "God's" gift
creation of joy/beauty/happiness

shanna


http://hawaiian-poet-tree.blogspot.com/

http://www.photoshow.com/watch/RQ9Ec3Kj

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Contest Closes 11.10.2009 at 11:59 Eastern

Thank you to all the great, clever and inspiring writers who have entered
Lyrical Passion Poetry E-Zine's "2009 World TANKA Contest"

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walking
in dialogue
talking
invisible friends
cell phone nirvana


© 2009 Sandy Vrooman

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stalled
traffic grid locked
as we wait
a woman on her cell phone
leisurely crosses the street



© 2009 Sandy Vrooman



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'Chivalry' >< 'Youth'???  I think your dictionary might settle definitions
here.  But that is up to you.
 
Z;>) Ella

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From: Tony <nombresin_ph@...>
Subject: [Tanka] Re: Pallid Leaves
To: Tanka@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, 26 October, 2009, 3:38


 




Thanks Ella! The proper preposition should be "for" in lieu of "of".
I am thinking "chilvalry" is akin to youth and "captivity" to old age!

Tony

pallid leaves
on the placid pool
my refuge
for wounded chivalries
rotting in captivity

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> HI Tony,
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it, and not "a refuge of"?
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'wounded chivalries'? And, since I'm at it, what exactly do you mean
with 'wounded chivalries'? Unreturned favours? Unrequited affections?
I tend to look for something concrete, although I think I get the
emotion you want to convey.
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more on old age ...

1)

rosy dreams
fast fading, melting
in black & white
the last autumn leaf
flings to the bough


2)

i am
the night traveler
weary & cold
longing to be back home
to the cuddle of the womb


Tony




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Thanks Ella!  The proper preposition should be "for" in lieu of  "of".
I am thinking "chilvalry" is  akin to youth and "captivity" to old age!

Tony



pallid leaves
on the placid pool
my refuge
for wounded chivalries
rotting in captivity


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> HI Tony,
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> Just a short comment about L3 -- it's usually "a refuge for", isn't
it, and not "a refuge of"?
> But then, I'd wonder about L4 -- is it logical to have 'a refuge' for
'wounded chivalries'?  And, since I'm at it, what exactly do you mean
with 'wounded chivalries'?  Unreturned favours?  Unrequited affections?
I tend to look for something concrete, although I think I get the
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HI Tony,
 
Just a short comment about L3 -- it's usually "a refuge for", isn't it, and not
"a refuge of"?
But then, I'd wonder about L4 -- is it logical to have 'a refuge' for 'wounded
chivalries'?  And, since I'm at it, what exactly do you mean with 'wounded
chivalries'?  Unreturned favours?  Unrequited affections?  I tend to look for
something concrete, although I think I get the emotion you want to convey.
 
It's a nice one, be assured.
 
Ella

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From: Tony <nombresin_ph@...>
Subject: [Tanka] Pallid Leaves
To: Tanka@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, 22 October, 2009, 10:05


 




I used to be an avid reader in our forum. Let me break the ice, please
allow me
to share the following:

pallid leaves
on the placid pool
my refuge
of wounded chivalries
rotting in captivity

Tony

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I used to be an avid reader in our forum.  Let me break the ice, please
allow me
to share the following:


pallid leaves
on the placid pool
my refuge
of wounded chivalries
rotting in captivity


Tony





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Hi, Shanna -
Long time, no talk.  I hope all goes well for you.

Glad you enjoyed this tanka.

Michael


--- In Tanka@yahoogroups.com, "shanna" <shanna@...> wrote:
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Thanks, Vidur -
I have just returned to tanka very recently, so your comments are
much appreciated.

Michael



--- In Tanka@yahoogroups.com, "Dr.Vidur Jyoti" <drvidur@...> wrote:
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of the stone circle.Thanks for sharing this Tanka
vidur

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this is realy outstanding

shanna
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at that age now
when lifetime guarantees
seem meaningless
a cold rain drips from church eaves
the great stone circle stands silent


Michael

Thank you, Vidur -
This is one of those tanka that just appeared in my mind, from out of nowhere -
I do not think I was thinking about anything even closely related to this poem
before it presented itself.


Michael


Re: [Tanka] slumped in this chair


a profound thought, Michael, very well depictedthanks for sharing it

vidur


2009/10/11 Michael E <trailermike@...>

> slumped in this chair
> arms and legs dangling
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> where is the puppeteer
> who has abandoned me?
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Thank you, Ella -
I am glad you think so.

Michael


Re: slumped in this chair

The imagery and content in this tanka are quite graphic.  The heavy third line
functions superbly.

Ella

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slumped in this chair
arms and legs dangling
over the edge
where is the puppeteer
who has abandoned me?

Michael
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a profound thought, Michael, very well depictedthanks for sharing it

vidur
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Thank you, 
 
I have revised the poem and wonder if it is any better.  Of course "legendary 
prestige" remains and it is basically the the prestige given to the moon in
tanka, or haiku poetry.  This poem has a mirror image.  The frog is sleeping
on the mirror image of the pond giving it a human characteristic.  All of us,
in some measure, hold on to the dreams we have.  Even if we don't do anything
about them.
 
 
frogs sleep
on the dreaming landscape
reflection of the pond
rising moon
legendary prestige
 
 
I have added another tanka
 


smudged crayon sky
bells peal for love’s funeral
monks pray
between rows of tall cypress
under the hunter’s moon
 
 
thank you ever so much for your critic.
Sergio
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From: again_themoon <again_themoon@...>
Subject: [Tanka] Re: new tanka
To: Tanka@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, October 11, 2009, 5:51 AM


 




this poem is the very most perfect example of what the paradiscs are.
it it has at once two distant opposing instances. it has very special and great
language but it is unclear. the images are hard to imagine, or see... the pond
dreaming up a frog is like the uinverse suddenly creating god. an image a
thought a fundamental truth what ever yo might call it is disturbingbecause we
do not know we don't know what you mean.what is legendary prestige what is that
? what do you mean and why is it in the poem???
like I said great language , a noble effort.

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The imagery and content in this tanka are quite graphic.  The heavy third line
functions superbly.
 
Ella

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slumped in this chair
arms and legs dangling
over the edge
where is the puppeteer
who has abandoned me?

Michael
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slumped in this chair
arms and legs dangling
over the edge
where is the puppeteer
who has abandoned me?


Michael