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Tanka · Tanka is Japan's oldest poetry form. Traditionally a tanka has five lines with 5-7-5-7-7 syllables. In English some count sylla
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18607
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...
Gene Murtha
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18608
.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,...
louis osofsky
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Oct 1, 2006
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.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 Osofsky
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Oct 1, 2006
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Louis, I would focus on Enough Said, and not the "least amount of words used". Gene PS: I'll be off-list....
Gene Murtha
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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...
Henry Sanders
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Oct 1, 2006
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18612
Hello everyone, I'm not on all the lists that I would like to be on, so if you folks could pass this message around, I would truly appreciate it very much. ...
anya
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You came through any.a. Lewis ... Get your own web address for just $1.99/1st yr. We'll help. Yahoo! Small Business. [Non-text portions of this message have...
Henry Sanders
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... From: Henry Sanders To: Tanka@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 5:52 PM Subject: Re: [Tanka] re: test You came through any.a. Lewis ... Get...
anya
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18616
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,...
anya
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Oct 2, 2006
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18617
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, ...
janet l. d.
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Oct 2, 2006
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18618
ambiguity and yugen are okay...ezra pound and william blake would be nowhere today if they wrote concrete easy to understand verse......
robert wilson
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Oct 2, 2006
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18619
* * * 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...
louis osofsky
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Oct 2, 2006
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autumn evening... acid aftermath from her kiss as her chilly hand touch my collar bone ©JJ Oct 2, 2006...
Jörgen Johansson
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Oct 2, 2006
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18621
thanks for commenting! ... be ... after the...
janet l. d.
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Oct 2, 2006
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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 ...
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Oct 3, 2006
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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...
robert wilson
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Oct 3, 2006
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18624
water, thru fifty feet of soil, slowly... generations pass into the body * * * my great grandfather picked me without speaking; we grew as chosen companions, ...
louis osofsky
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Oct 3, 2006
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autumn's full moon shrinks and whitens as it rises in the shortened dusk unfinished dreams resume even for the dead nearby neca...
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Oct 4, 2006
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18626
there's ice cream in the freezer when you arrive, a simple message : i'll be there, soon ~ louis...
louis osofsky
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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]...
Michael Paone
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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...
M. Kei
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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...
M. Kei
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18630
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....
robert wilson
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Oct 4, 2006
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18631
.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...
louis osofsky
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Oct 5, 2006
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18632
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 Paone
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Oct 5, 2006
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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...
Louis Osofsky
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Oct 5, 2006
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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...
Louis Osofsky
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Oct 5, 2006
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18635
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...
Kitsune Miko
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Oct 5, 2006
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18636
.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...
louis osofsky
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