in the graveyard like ghosts that wander about unnoticed i wander among the living and the dead inside the groove of a headstone's engraving a wandering ant ...
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Samurai000@...
Feb 1, 2001 8:17 am
"The Wendys Massacre" at the storefront where the life blood poured out from the hearts of many balloons flowers and letters ALL COMMENTS AND CRITICISM...
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Samurai000@...
Feb 1, 2001 8:44 am
My beloved cats died not too long ago, after thirteen wonderful years. Being like my own children, I miss them very much. Below are a few tanka about my...
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Samurai000@...
Feb 1, 2001 8:52 am
construction demolishing the playground where she first loved me cracked concrete and broken stones remain falling over that strong man carrying a heavy stone ...
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Samurai000@...
Feb 1, 2001 8:54 am
from the slit of her black leather coat a shapely thigh my mind races my heart to a dead heat cooled now in this ashtray ashes my nightly flesh burns for her ...
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Samurai000@...
Feb 1, 2001 9:16 am
Oh wise ones, wherefore art thou? We seek thee, and find thee not. Where are the established tanka poets here? The published ones, the ones who teach about...
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khairi
khaihar@...
Feb 1, 2001 10:20 am
Hi Samurai, There are many good Tanka poets in this list. I enjoy reading/listening their words/thoughts thru their tanka. I don't have a formal tanka teacher,...
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gardawg@...
Feb 1, 2001 2:31 pm
In a message dated 2/1/01 1:23:50 AM Pacific Standard Time, ... VG. Be pleased. Gary who also looks for tanka school, not a board with random comments, school...
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gardawg@...
Feb 1, 2001 2:32 pm
In a message dated 2/1/01 2:22:48 AM Pacific Standard Time, khaihar@... ... Two VG read in a row and this one with the original. Khairi, where are you...
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khairi
khaihar@...
Feb 1, 2001 3:13 pm
... I'm here in Malaysia (probably half-way round the world where you are at). Where I came from? From my mother, I suppose... *lame* joke :) Khairi ...
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karkow@...
Feb 1, 2001 3:24 pm
I am fortunate enough to have one accepted for the next issue of American Tanka but... all night long the old cat wails wandering from room to room what does...
1078
gardawg@...
Feb 1, 2001 4:19 pm
Even the cat is bored with long gray, all days the same. We want something new to complain about. Gary <A...
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dmine@...
Feb 2, 2001 3:01 am
From: Samurai000@a... Date: Thu Feb 1, 2001 4:15am Subject: Where Are the Tanka Teachers? Oh wise ones, wherefore art thou? We seek thee, and find thee...
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Christopher Baskind
emailkit@...
Feb 2, 2001 4:41 am
... The Mountain-Home waka (tanka) archives are open to the public. You're welcome to see if there might be anything helpful in our community. While we are...
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Samurai000@...
Feb 2, 2001 6:44 am
... Hi Debi, and thank you for replying! I agree with you, that my best teachers would be found in books! I am reading tanka everyday, trying to improve my...
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Samurai000@...
Feb 2, 2001 6:54 am
... the ... You're ... While ... For ... other ... Thank you for the link, Kit. I have subscribed to this group. By the way, I own a copy of "Saigyo--Poems...
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gardawg@...
Feb 2, 2001 5:03 pm
In a message dated 2/1/01 9:07:59 PM Pacific Standard Time, ... Thanks. Joined. Gary Even the cat is bored with long gray, all days the same. We want...
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thelma.mariano@...
Feb 2, 2001 5:09 pm
a hot bath is good for her bones, she says though she hates the stuff that turned it blue - toilet bowl cleaner -- Thelma Comments welcome!...
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karkow@...
Feb 2, 2001 6:24 pm
... This series, Thelma, is so poignant, so accurate, so illustrative of an all too common experience, that all I can do is congratulate you on a job...
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Bill Gottlieb
godlove@...
Feb 2, 2001 7:27 pm
Anniversary: five lines like love’s five years’ of celebratory moments, a woman, his, her undimmed desire for more......
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b miao
bmiao99@...
Feb 2, 2001 8:53 pm
Dear Thelma: I think your dementia series is great. It is poignant and exquisite. Your experience is something many of us share. I look forward to reading them...
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Jane Reichhold
jreichol@...
Feb 2, 2001 10:44 pm
Hello, I am here. It seems to me that people are helping people by helping in sharing sharing-help. What more do you wish? \o/ Jane ... ...
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Samurai000@...
Feb 3, 2001 1:10 am
... helping ... Hi Jane. I'd love a one-on-one tanka classroom, but I know that's not possible. :-) I appreciate the comments and criticism from ...
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Richard Goring
richard@...
Feb 3, 2001 4:31 pm
unsubscribe...
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the.poet@...
Feb 3, 2001 7:45 pm
ah! how often did i want to brush your cheeks to stay the course of tears but staying the course of course is what i never did doris kasson...
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gardawg@...
Feb 3, 2001 11:14 pm
In a message dated 2/3/01 3:09:53 PM Pacific Standard Time, the.poet@... ... Doris, such play on words seldom seen. Good. Thanks. Gary <A...
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Bill Gottlieb
godlove@...
Feb 4, 2001 1:52 am
Grass staggers on February, sotted with green, and mountain’s fruit trees pardon color, freeing cream and pink to riot again....
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karkow@...
Feb 4, 2001 2:48 pm
... How refreshing, this touching humour! Dried up my tears. kirsty...
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karkow@...
Feb 4, 2001 2:51 pm
afternoon sun-- long blue shadows grope over tired snow wistful thoughts reach for you across so many winters kirsty...
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Jane Reichhold
jreichol@...
Feb 4, 2001 8:10 pm
Dear Samuri, Oh dear. It is very hard for me to offer critique on people's poetry. I guess I believe that each of us have to find our own way upward to poetry...
