Thanks Janet: Yes, they were both typos, sorry for my carelessness while I attmpted to copy and paste these. I was going through some old poems to send to two...
.1 open to the night all that glows… sees .2 lighted window lamp watches night secrets filter to the outside .3 paths, their cadence carried me along rhythm,...
.6 accurately hear oneself close one’s eyes; they bend to kiss housing face mystery louis osofsky <osofskylouis@...> wrote: .1 open to the night all...
louis this very good. Everyone I need haiku for In Buddha's Temple website. Submit 1-2 haiku to henlewsan@... Plus I need links to yout haiku and Tanka...
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Lewis, did you see my TSA announcement come through the list by any chance? love ya, an'ya ... From: Henry Sanders To: Tanka@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday,...
our brand-new home site and, already, some visitors. . . in the sandy loam fresh tracks of deer eagerly we follow the hog trail cut through our woods, ...
* * * logging trucks carry this world, making paper to read about animal droppings and all that seems left behind * * * even when dressed the deer doesn't...
In a message dated 9/30/2006 8:53:53 PM Eastern Standard Time, Genemurt@... writes: ... This is nice Kathy. Gee's, I wish that I was a younger man:) Gene ...
Here are two powerful, poignant tanka written by Kawano Yuko, the famous contemporary Japanese tanka poet. They deal with the masectomy she had after being...
water, thru fifty feet of soil, slowly... generations pass into the body * * * my great grandfather picked me without speaking; we grew as chosen companions, ...
A dull fate, you ask me how I spent my summer; passing time alone squandering stars. Michael P. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
an October day of pumpkins and corn, horse droppings steaming, Amish schoolgirls dead on the floor ~K~ Nickel Mines, PA, is not far from here. I was driving...
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I just received my copy of Modern English Tanka, Fall, 2006, the inaugural issue of a fine new journal of tanka in English. Edited by Denis M. Garrison, who...
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I like what you wrote here, Neca, but suggest you tighten up the verse some, omitting non-essential words. Adherence to a 5/7/5/7/7 formula is not necessary....
.1 heard them say : how deeply in love they fell; seeing that it's good, seems very good... but yet, we rose .2 light a fire it chops wood, make a boat it...
Although I feel it's not that tanka-esque (perhaps better as a cinquain?), I really like idea of number 2, Louis. Best, Michael P. ... From: louis osofsky To:...
Michael P ~ thanks for the feed-back challenged right now to turn posted verse #2 into a cinquain and making line 4 of the cinquain, like that of the last line...
Michael P ~ here is a cinquain, I did write recently... raindrops from my gutters perform puddle love songs giving pleasure not to me ... alone ~ louis Michael...
I have to agree that eventhough these are not really tanka, they are all quite lovely. pen pricks lined up on a page tiny holes luminaries of soul lighting the...
.1 after the rain on a cold afternoon bright mountain roads and fog covered valleys .2 clearing skies in wild woods hearing sharpened .3 unmoving -- without...
