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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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2476 YR
runok@... Send Email
Apr 1, 2002
2:20 pm
Wonderful - it flows like a song - like a good tanka should! Even that silent syllable in the last line after 'feelings&#39; -YR...
2477 blomstereng Send Email Apr 1, 2002
7:15 pm
more warmth from the northbound sun-- a quickening in winter's quiet womb and newborn thoughts of life kirsty...
2478 Marjorie A Buettner
craneswing2 Send Email
Apr 2, 2002
1:20 am
the circling moon colors the depth of the night with a golden light for the briefest of moments tasting your lips once again Marjorie Buettner ...
2479 mz_sherry Send Email Apr 2, 2002
7:51 am
Marjorie, Hi I just joined tonight but wanted to say this is a very lovely poem you have wrote nicely expressed. When we reply do we send this to eachother or...
2480 mz_sherry Send Email Apr 2, 2002
7:58 am
Hi everyone, My name is Sherry Im new here looking foward to reading your alls work and will post mine sometime too ive wrote several. God bless, Sherry!...
2481 blomstereng Send Email Apr 2, 2002
1:00 pm
clarion call from a distant freight train deep in the night when powerful dreams may signal warning kirsty...
2482 wifeofbath3 Send Email Apr 3, 2002
12:42 am
Taking forever, this reluctant seed; my heart curls tightly in its case, resisting warmth and rain. Suzanne...
2483 wifeofbath3 Send Email Apr 3, 2002
12:44 am
Taking forever, this reluctant seed; my heart curls tightly in its case, resisting warmth and rain. Suzanne...
2484 Jane Wilson
jw_nightowl Send Email
Apr 3, 2002
2:17 am
the opossum on my parents' front steps a silent visitor seeking nourishment on this dark spring night -- Jane Wilson [Captain John Smith of Virginia's...
2485 MtlAfrodisia@...
mtlafrodisia Send Email
Apr 3, 2002
4:24 am
Her brown nipples thru a sheer white blouse . . . I sit solitary in a cafe and ponder my next poem and a ku - sheer blouse . . . her bronze skin and freckles ...
2486 mz_sherry Send Email Apr 3, 2002
5:36 am
Nicely wrote Gary :O)Sherry...
2487 mz_sherry Send Email Apr 3, 2002
5:39 am
Great tanka lovely and impactful...Expressed love and meaning in this....Very nicely done. Sherry...
2488 mz_sherry Send Email Apr 3, 2002
5:46 am
Suzane, Great tanka Im new here so Im not sure if one mails the comments or is supose to post them.....In replies I sent mine to you but ill just say this is...
2489 Gary B
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Apr 3, 2002
2:39 pm
I sit solitary in a cafe and ponder my next poem Ah! John, thanks. Gary Tina March guest and Gar tells tales at: http://gardawg.homestead.com/gardawg.html ...
2490 poetice2001 Send Email Apr 3, 2002
3:25 pm
... Reminds me of this old one: in the café where we sit among strangers with eyes on your cleavage i wonder if they are real these feelings i have for you ...
2491 blomstereng Send Email Apr 3, 2002
10:18 pm
cafe sign: "help wanted --inquire within" a reminder that my inner self knows all the answers kirsty...
2492 Jane Wilson
jw_nightowl Send Email
Apr 4, 2002
3:10 am
in Bethlehem gunmen and armored tanks filling the streets -- a sudden downpour breaks this slow afternoon -- Jane Wilson ... Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center -...
2493 mz_sherry Send Email Apr 4, 2002
5:35 am
Jane, Well written such a powerful write... Sherry...
2494 mz_sherry Send Email Apr 4, 2002
5:36 am
Well written Jane, powerful write. Sherry:)...
2495 mz_sherry Send Email Apr 4, 2002
5:37 am
I didnt mean for that to happen please forgive me.......
2496 blomstereng Send Email Apr 4, 2002
1:17 pm
... Reading this, I recalled a sijo I once wrote about a seed that is difficult to germinate the sky blue morning glory finds germination difficult her seed...
2497 thelmamariano Send Email Apr 4, 2002
8:55 pm
slowing down to watch the sky at mid-life I see new dreams form in the shape of clouds -- Thelma...
2498 mz_sherry Send Email Apr 5, 2002
4:58 am
This is beautiful wonderful read of such hope shows that becoming older doesent always have to be depressing. Sherry:)...
2499 thelmamariano Send Email Apr 5, 2002
6:05 pm
Last night I went to a Montreal Ikebana exhibition (Japanese flower arrangements) and was inspired to write the following tanka. in the foliage white orchids...
2500 Gary B
gdbrem Send Email
Apr 5, 2002
8:56 pm
the fern's shadow on a white-panelled screen - I look back and see the doubts that follow me even now Thelma, well done set. * cut daffodils wilt too near the...
2501 priszm11@...
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Apr 6, 2002
2:29 am
... A wonderful series, Thelma! Thanks for sharing some of your world. Cindy __________________________________________________________________ Your favorite...
2502 Marjorie A Buettner
craneswing2 Send Email
Apr 6, 2002
12:40 pm
this gradation of early morning light spills out into the sky overfilling the air with sweet liquid luminous song Marjorie Buettner ...
2503 naia
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Apr 7, 2002
12:54 am
in my deepest dreams of losing and longing I shall welcome tonight's lost hour -naia __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo!...
2504 mz_sherry Send Email Apr 7, 2002
1:32 am
Lovely write:)...
2505 KaraLuna@...
labellaluna2002 Send Email
Apr 7, 2002
9:30 am
In a message dated 4/4/02 4:57:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time, tankapoet@... writes: << slowing down to watch the sky at mid-life I see new dreams form in...
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