office of poetic justice licensing division manned by nomadic hermits who never read the rules (c) 2007 Sandy Vrooman -- "Expectations are resentments under...
parched in western desert pink blush gathering clouds to wash away the mirage ~ louis __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired...
Hi all, I just joined and would like to translate a few lines into Japanese. At first I was thinking a haiku, then I found an elaborated version in Japanese....
you sped past me on your way to nowhere . . . the wind looking for a place to sleep destined to be alone in a houseful of people, listening to lovelorn...
Dear Tanka Friends, Tanka Sequences is for the writing and critiquing of tanka in sequences. A 'sequence' is a group of tanka (sometimes interspersed with...
M. Kei
kujaku@...
May 7, 2007 11:42 am
19998
___ a plumber's pipe so open at both ends full of readiness to reject nothing i pass through on my way ___ not this, not that shouting, ponting to himself ...
our path, this morning, merging with stones gathered when time thought better of us soon the grass will dry up, leaving me short of breath there will never be...
Near where I have a second home in the Phillipines is a volcanic mountain named after the faerie princess, Maria Makeling. From afar, the mountaintop...
finished the book many stories had no end missing pages on a line clothes hung out to dry ~ louis __________________________________________________ Do You...
my arms & eyes are now my sons' conjugations knuckled toes root deep in their own mountain loom ~ louis __________________________________________________ Do...
I love "i see/a world suggested by words." Very nice, Louis! M. louis osofsky <osofsky_louis@...> wrote: ___ lightning flashes & the world seems absent ...
Melanie ~ glad it resonates with you, too (isn't that where we reside.... ?) ~ louis ... From: Melanie Alberts <chocobach@...> To: Tanka@yahoogroups.com ...
those stories the trees tell me when i step out of my skin and listen this dry stream . . . listening to a bee feign water it's your birthday today; a...
Here is another fine waka from Carter's new book, The Householders: In my old age i pile on layers of bedclothes, and yet still I feel through the walls of...
___ string too short to save garnered nesting mice interweave now & then ___ from behind first sunlight struck my body western hill ablaze it comes warm from...
MET 4, the Summer 2007 issue of Modern English Tanka, has closed early for submissions because the issue is completely full. Submissions for MET5 will open in...
Hi Louis, what a world we live in - indifferent to nature and to other people's sufferings! Well captured! L2 can also read as: leaves no longer drop [???] And...