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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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Tanka of October 12 To remember the discovery and conquest of America I made these Tanka. The comments are welcome. The Tanka respects the syllabic quantities...
guillermo compte
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Oct 1, 2002
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I don't know whether it's "out of line" to post a sedoka here, but I just had to write this: She left in beauty, just like a supernova to embrace the world. ...
Cristian Mocanu
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Oct 1, 2002
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Let me add to this : [on turning 34] candles left behind like poplars by the swift train. Giggles flood the compartment: Teenagers bound for places you will...
Cristian Mocanu
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Oct 1, 2002
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this discussion is never-ending. I think the syllabic scheme should never be a dogma. Not for non-Japanese authors, anyway. All indo-European languages have at...
Cristian Mocanu
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Oct 1, 2002
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Fantastico!...
cris crawford
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Oct 1, 2002
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... Actually this is someone I haven't had contact with yet, so for now he's only in my head! Thelma...
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Oct 1, 2002
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even in the heat a flurry of falling leaves as if I need a reminder of time's relentless passage -- Thelma...
thelmamariano
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Oct 1, 2002
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I take a sip from the bone china you favored wishing for a way to contain all the changes in this one small cup -- Thelma...
thelmamariano
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Oct 1, 2002
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... I watch you sip from the china she loves-- only your broken heart is big enough to contain your love for her -- Kevin...
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Oct 1, 2002
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This will be the rain That the hurricane promised, Destroying elsewhere Homes, while here we only think Of a modest drouth ended. ===== GREED IS GOOD. GOD IS...
michael helsem
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Oct 2, 2002
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Waves stop at her feet sea breeze is waving her hair and rippling her skirt this rainy October day I just have to close my eyes -YR...
YR
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Waves stop at her feet sea breeze is waving her hair and rippling her skirt this rainy October day I just have to close my eyes -YR how beautiful... -...
camellia
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Oct 2, 2002
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through the caresses of a southern breeze once again I hear the cry of terns as they swoop over the gulf -- Thelma...
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Oct 2, 2002
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In a message dated 10/2/2002 6:44:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... morning comes with a breeze from the south that's as close as i get these days to the place...
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Oct 3, 2002
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through the caresses of a southern breeze once again I hear the cry of terns as they swoop over the gulf -- Thelma morning comes with a breeze from the south ...
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Oct 3, 2002
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... From: camellia <hortensia@...> To: <Tanka@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 2:59 PM Subject: Re: [Tanka] ... ... Yuri, this is...
Maria
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Oct 3, 2002
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Sorry I don't have anything better to translate into Spanish! But I just had to. If anyone spots a mistake let me know, it is not my first language though it's...
Cris Crawford
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Oct 3, 2002
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Though muggy, the heat has fin'lly broken; i can carry meltables in my sack lunch; your sister puts the bite on you again. ===== GREED IS GOOD. GOD IS GREAT. ...
michael helsem
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Oct 3, 2002
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a contrail fades in the pearly evening sky from where does it come - this wave of sadness at things passing away? Thelma...
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Oct 4, 2002
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in memoriam . . . images of september on every channel; today, even the clouds are crying Kathy Lippard Cobb...
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Oct 4, 2002
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Street lamp, rustling sounds as fallen leaves roll along out and into darkness tonight it is darker yet - Moon on a slimming diet In an ice-cold wind even...
YR
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So flat your voice when i take my dawn departure i just want to stay & hold you, till once more you say you love me & mean it. ===== GREED IS GOOD. GOD IS...
michael helsem
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Oct 4, 2002
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Riddle this saffron that withholds its angelance, yet still on Djuna glints cinnamon in her hair & crimson her full frank lips. ===== GREED IS GOOD. GOD IS...
michael helsem
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Oct 4, 2002
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Kat, The frank honesty in this tanka is moving. Well done!! Jane +++...
Jane E. Wilson
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Oct 4, 2002
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Kat, It's quite true that women feel invisible when men focus on the TV, "tuning out" everything else. The image of the bright, full moon in the window adds a...
Jane E. Wilson
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Oct 4, 2002
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I've had thoughts like that, too -- about pushing the middle-age bar higher and higher!! Lately I've found myself perusing the drug-store aisles, looking for a...
Jane E. Wilson
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Oct 5, 2002
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It really does resonate. Thanks for posting this. BTW, the algorithm for postponing middle-age is: "your current age" + 1 - hortensia ;-) ... From: "Jane E....
hortensia
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Oct 5, 2002
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... bar ... for ... gray ... in ... UP. ... age goes away as two hearts beat as one in the soft hay where we gave ourelves to each other long ago Darrell...
Darrell Byrd
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Oct 5, 2002
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age goes away as two hearts beat as one in the soft hay where we gave ourselves to each other long ago Darrell This reminds me of a cinniquan that I did, if...
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Oct 5, 2002
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(please scroll down...) one October night home on the creaky porch swing I reviewed my life-- my fears, my hopes, my loves soothed by the cricket's counsel ...
ladytheolyn
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