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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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19991
office of poetic justice licensing division manned by nomadic hermits who never read the rules (c) 2007 Sandy Vrooman -- "Expectations are resentments under...
kitsune miko
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May 3, 2007
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19992
parched in western desert pink blush gathering clouds to wash away the mirage ~ louis __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired...
louis osofsky
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May 3, 2007
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19993
I came across this tanka written by Motoori Norinsaga (1730-1801), translated by Michael F. Marra: tachiyorade I have passed by yoso ni...
robert wilson
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May 3, 2007
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19994
walking alone i stumble, get up again pick off thorns .. . .it's storms that are born in & burst out of my heart ~ louis ...
louis osofsky
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May 3, 2007
10:43 pm
19995
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....
M. R.
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May 3, 2007
10:59 pm
19996
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...
robert wilson
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May 4, 2007
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19997
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
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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 ...
louis osofsky
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May 7, 2007
5:01 pm
19999
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...
robert wilson
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May 7, 2007
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20000
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...
robert wilson
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May 8, 2007
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20001
finished the book many stories had no end missing pages on a line clothes hung out to dry ~ louis __________________________________________________ Do You...
louis osofsky
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May 8, 2007
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20002
my arms & eyes are now my sons' conjugations knuckled toes root deep in their own mountain loom ~ louis __________________________________________________ Do...
louis osofsky
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May 9, 2007
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20003
___ lightning flashes & the world seems absent the afterimage you read aloud, i see a world suggested by words ___ ~ louis ...
louis osofsky
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May 11, 2007
4:55 pm
20004
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 Alberts
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May 11, 2007
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20005
Melanie ~ glad it resonates with you, too (isn't that where we reside.... ?) ~ louis ... From: Melanie Alberts <chocobach@...> To: Tanka@yahoogroups.com ...
louis osofsky
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May 11, 2007
8:36 pm
20006
buried in this city my village dirt track its grave - this road that signboard its epitaph c&c solicited vidur...
Dr. Vidur Jyoti
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May 13, 2007
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20007
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...
robert wilson
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May 14, 2007
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20008
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...
robert wilson
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May 14, 2007
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20009
___ 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...
louis osofsky
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May 14, 2007
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20010
The International Japanese Short Form Journal read by over 6,000 people worldwide Simply Haiku "The Showcase for Japanese Short Form poetry" ...
robert wilson
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May 16, 2007
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20011
the old ones came to my mountain and left the stars Hawaiian legends from the beginning shanna http://hawaiian-poet-tree.blogspot.com/ ...
shanna
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May 16, 2007
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20012
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...
Denis Garrison
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May 16, 2007
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20013
___ once-tree beneath no longer drops leaves just flakes & bits -- who could be sorry over a rotten log ? ___ ~ louis ...
louis osofsky
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May 17, 2007
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20014
"men at work" the signboard reads her kids plant dreams among the stones that she breaks...
Dr. Vidur Jyoti
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May 18, 2007
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20015
asking me to write your name on the drenched sands waves return yet again c&c please thanks vidur jyoti...
Dr. Vidur Jyoti
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May 19, 2007
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20016
Hi Vidur, I like the honesty in this tanka and the lines flow into one another like the waves! Good one! -kala...
kala ramesh
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May 20, 2007
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20017
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...
kala ramesh
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May 20, 2007
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20018
thanks a lot kala vidur ... -- Vidur [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Dr.Vidur Jyoti
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May 20, 2007
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20019
kala ~ good critique; i'll use some it again, as always, thanks ~ louis ... From: kala ramesh <kala_art888@...> To: Tanka@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
louis osofsky
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May 21, 2007
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20020
a partridge knocking at glass panes in the concrete jungle only a bonsai grows in my room...
Dr. Vidur Jyoti
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May 21, 2007
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