new moon
a story talking
in my sleep
nearby, the book
resting in silence
.
.
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Tag: tanka
light snow – – tanka
light snow
some say
spring is here
the days stretching longer
all I see is white
.
.
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The traditional spring kigo, ‘light snow’, in a tanka for Frank Tassone’s Haikai Challenge.
I wrote this on March 2 afternoon (yesterday) when it was snowing.
high winds: tanka
high winds
whip the house
our guests snoring
on soft cushions
ice at the door
:
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beyond December: tanka
January
emerging
from December’s womb
an open plain
a yawning horizon
:
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a tanka 12.01.19
from my rolling cabin
I see wings surf the wind
signs of life
in a domain of grey
before the sun
:
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early 21st century moment: tanka
sipping morning tea
without my smartphone
feeling on the cusp
a visceral flavour
of decades past
:
Smartphones are a turn-of-the century phenomena—“smartphone” became a known term in 1995; the first iPhone came out in 2007.
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on the road: haiku and tanka
retro radio
I catch up
with my teen era
:
autumn slush rain
fresh colour on the road
lemon puddles
:
defog on high
no heat on the floor
the wipers squeak
a doleful autumn preview
of winter driving
:
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I wrote the closing tanka in response to Carpe Diem #1543 Rainstorm which challenges us to write haiku or tanka about a rainstorm without referring to it directly.
