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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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In 1833 Thomas Buxton presented The Emancipation Bill in Parliament. The Act was passed and came into effect on 1 August 1834. On that day,thousands of slaves...
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his milestones turned into ghosts kissed by dark night the pilgrim marches on searching a sun...
Dr. Vidur Jyoti
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at a milestone which you chose to call your destination this journey a relic bequeathed to me...
Dr. Vidur Jyoti
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... Each line is like a bead added to a string. I had this image of the sun and ocean working together like a potter at his/her wheel. Cindy...
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Aug 4, 2007
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first light finds the tallest tree casting out any shadows sunset Peles hair turns golden lighting the fire within shanna ...
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all alone this summer again i´ve done everything even changed my deodorant ©JJ Aug 4, 2007...
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That's a good one! ~K~ ... -- Poet, Heron Sea, Short Poems of the Chesapeake Bay <Lulu.com/firepearls> Editor, Fire Pearls: Short Masterpieces of the Human...
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... I like your tanka but the line breaks don't seem quite right. Maybe it's just me. Perhaps: I've done everything even changed my deordorant...
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Aug 4, 2007
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I like your L3-5 but i´ll stick with my orig version. JJ ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Jörgen Johansson
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Thanx for the feedback. JJ ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Jörgen Johansson
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the strong smell of my youth inside the hollow oak peek-a-boo with my now ex ©JJ Aug 4, 2007...
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summer evening bamboo rods at the lighthouse this could have been me fourty years ago ©JJ Aug 4, 2007...
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ATLAS POETICA : A Journal of Poetry of Place in Modern English Tanka August 4, 2007. Baltimore, Maryland. Modern English Tanka Press is...
Denis Garrison
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I really like this you tell it all, within a very small space. Very moving and powerful.I am not a tanka writer I didn't even know what it was until I found...
Jane Marawar
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Aug 6, 2007
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the outlaw poets I and ll and word wizards shanna ... From: Jane Marawar To: Tanka@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 9:05 AM Subject: [Tanka]...
shanna
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Aug 6, 2007
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broken glass of a past temper tantrum resurfaces in a foot glass diamonds sparkle by the broken cars a reminder of ice crystals of long ago shanna shanna ...
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on tiptoes the moon arrives hangs a patch of night in my window, and- leaves me awake...
Dr. Vidur Jyoti
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Aug 9, 2007
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This gave me a warm fuzzy feeling very nice shanna ... From: Dr. Vidur Jyoti To: Tanka@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 7:18 AM Subject: [Tanka]...
shanna
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thanks, shanna vidur ... -- Vidur [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Dr.Vidur Jyoti
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Aug 9, 2007
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Aha poetry..... words channeled becomes public property laid down when the universe let go of it shanna http://hawaiian-poet-tree.blogspot.com/ ...
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Aug 10, 2007
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BLUE SMOKE a two voice improvisation by Sheila Windsor & Larry Kimmel. This collaborative poem of one hundred Cherita stanzas, with 46 ink illus. by Sheila...
Sheila Windsor
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Aug 11, 2007
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droopy clouds the last of raindrops on a damp sunday morning sliding down the leaves a reluctant sunrise...
Dr. Vidur Jyoti
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Aug 12, 2007
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holy cow soul refreshment iced dreams mixed with superstition second helpings of guilt (c) 2007 Sandy Vrooman -- "Expectations are resentments under...
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tending bar in the no name cantina mixing metaphors with a dash of bitters and a twist singing off key blues for good timing fiends who drink the anger freely...
kitsune miko
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just the two of us and a shroud of mist between sunrise and moonset carrying those memories an aroma wafts away...
Dr. Vidur Jyoti
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the wind blew foam and green water at breakfast that, which could not be held down we could not throw up Darrell...
Darrell Byrd
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in the drought apples tart and small miserly those many kind words he kept to himself michele...
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Aug 17, 2007
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I like this. ~K~ ... -- Editor, Atlas Poetica : A Journal of Poetry of Place in Modern English Tanka <AtlasPoetica.com> Poet, Heron Sea, Short Poems of the...
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Aug 17, 2007
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Neat and to the point, and oh so graphic! Ella ... in the drought apples tart and small miserly those many kind words he kept to himself michele...
Ella Wagemakers
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Aug 19, 2007
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grandmother jasmine tea in fine bone china between cherry and rowan a spider's dewy web sheila...
Sheila Windsor
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