Patricia Prime has an article in the new MET, "Irresistable Constructions: a tanka prose essay", MET Autumn 2008, p. 214. ...
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jwlheart
Oct 1, 2008 3:59 pm
though we may suffer some devastating loss now and then God still gives us better than we deserve - Jewel...
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Ella W.
ellawagemakers
Oct 2, 2008 5:31 am
This strikes me as a 'sermon' and not poetry, Jewel. And hopefully I'm allowed that opinion. Ella ... though we may suffer some devastating loss now and then...
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Trish Shields
trishardent
Oct 2, 2008 8:58 am
a nighttime glow spreads across the sound poppies sprout from ash through clouds, a falling star Trish...
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gillena2001
Oct 2, 2008 7:54 pm
a crackle of lightning through the early Christmas season mood the wet season torrents ingers relentless interludes much love gillena...
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Ella W.
ellawagemakers
Oct 5, 2008 8:52 pm
I much enjoyed this still yet moving life, Trish. Ella ... a nighttime glow spreads across the sound poppies sprout from ash through clouds, a falling star ...
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Trish Shields
trishardent
Oct 5, 2008 9:51 pm
Thanks, Ella. I chanced upon a photo taken a number of years ago of the remains of a forest fire. Amongst the ruin was a flash of red. I saw it as a poppy -...
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Trish Shields
trishardent
Oct 7, 2008 8:39 am
clouds dance on a breeze cherry petals in the pride parade his mask slips away or clouds dance across the platform cherry petals on a Pride float a daughter at...
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H. Gene Murtha
gmu9240555
Oct 10, 2008 11:52 am
... I like the first poem better, and I really love the last line: "his mask slips away" Gene...
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Hortensia
hortensia007
Oct 11, 2008 1:40 am
This strikes me as a 'sermon' and not poetry, Jewel. And hopefully I'm allowed that opinion. Ella I agree with Ella. It is a sermon and a completely...
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Trish Shields
trishardent
Oct 11, 2008 5:44 am
Thanks very much, Gene. Trish...
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gillena2001
Oct 11, 2008 6:35 am
on the tenth day in the month of October at 10:AM- its no coincidence the church-filled funeral much love gillena...
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Catdanzing@...
catdanzing2
Oct 11, 2008 8:31 am
Agreed with you both. I wonder if Jewel's sense of wonder might be served with a more subtle approach. A more poetic statement of the beauty that is in...
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shanna
seestawoman
Oct 11, 2008 5:14 pm
hey girl..yes the music..I sing mine to edgar allen poe .... the raven shanna...
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Karen Cesar
tailoredopin...
Oct 11, 2008 8:31 pm
... Can you sing the poem? A tanka should be able to be ... This may be off point, but I tried to find "Sakura" online to understand what you are saying,...
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Karen Cesar
tailoredopin...
Oct 11, 2008 8:38 pm
... Oooohhhh...just found this one -- tears to my eyes.... http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=bqmjbqCOwqI <http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=bqmjbqCOwqI> ... [Non-text...
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Ella W.
ellawagemakers
Oct 12, 2008 1:10 pm
I enjoyed this link, Karen, a lot more than the second one you posted. Thanks so much! Ella ... Can you sing the poem? A tanka should be able to be ... This...
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Jane Reichhold
janereichhold
Oct 12, 2008 4:12 pm
Message from Curtis Dunlap: Dear Friends, I have some very sad news this week. Bill Higginson died today. More information and a message from Penny can be read...
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Trish Shields
trishardent
Oct 12, 2008 10:27 pm
I was so sorry to hear this news. I only know of Bill Higginson through his haiku books, but he has made such a difference in how I approach both haiku and...
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Catdanzing@...
catdanzing2
Oct 13, 2008 5:21 am
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keF-KYKKYeI&feature=related_ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keF-KYKKYeI&feature=related) This is one I can access. Wait...
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Trish Shields
trishardent
Oct 13, 2008 6:49 am
This is beautiful, Norla. Trish...
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John Rodgers
tykepoet
Oct 13, 2008 8:51 am
I agree that the first of these is the better and the thing that struck me when I read it was that it had a Japanese feel to it. John...
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janetintexas
Oct 13, 2008 3:31 pm
So sorry to hear also. janet d. ... http://tobaccoroadpoet.blogspot.com/2008/10/bill-higginson-has-died.html...
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janetintexas
Oct 13, 2008 4:43 pm
Jewell, if you're still around... Yup, in agreement with the others, this isn't a tanka or any other type of poem (sorry). Do you get why? Don't lose heart;...
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Jane Reichhold
janereichhold
Oct 13, 2008 7:32 pm
Jewell did leave the group. I checked in with her. She was not angry or upset. She said she felt she needed to do more study of tanka on her own as it was such...
tall gates of the Forbidden City remain closed an old man with ankles crossed asleep on the road Trish...
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Trish Shields
trishardent
Oct 15, 2008 8:07 am
he waits near the breakwater fingers curled brass valves undulate if only in his mind Trish...
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Trish Shields
trishardent
Oct 15, 2008 8:24 am
snow collects on his winter coat sunbeams spread at dusk antlers give him away sunbeams spread across a field early snowflakes collect on his coat antlers...
