Crossroads

Posted on Categories Poetry

dreams of love

pour from her hood

like spring blossoms

falling in rain, yet the moon

flashes on her fishing line

©️2018 Ontheland

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My tanka is a second Crossroads piece that finds a place of meeting between two translations of Japanese haiku….another interesting challenge open to everyone at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai. These are the two haiku that inspired my poem:

a thousand gallons

shower from the eaves…

cherry blossoms

© Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1828

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it touches the line

of my fishing pole –

this summer moon 

© Chiyo-Ni, 1703-1775

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Published by Janice

I started blogging as Ontheland and tweeting as Ontheland1 when I moved to the country near Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Blog challenges have led me to experiment with writing poetry and taking photos. Our natural world is one of my deepest concerns...the joy of it and how we can take better care. We live in important times, potentially an historical transition to renewable energy and other sustainable ways of living.

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