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

My name is Janice.  I started blogging as Ontheland when I moved from Toronto to a rural area near Kingston, Ontario in Canada.  Over time I have found myself writing poetry, mostly in Japanese forms, such as haiku and haibun.  One of my deepest interests is the natural world: the joy of it and how we can look after it better.

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