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Tag Archives: tanka
3 forms on luck
that copper taste in a disappointed mouth (a shadorma) the stench of burnt birthday candle and lost wish,burned-out star that crashes before it’s caught. fireflies dead in jars. falling stars (a triolet) do they count themselves lucky, tooas they fall like fire from the sky? with their … Continue reading
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Tagged April PAD 2021, birthday candles, copper pennies, falling stars, fireflies, form poems, shadorma, tanka, triolet, wishes
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morning night light
(an aubade tanka) .. one last stolen kiss. watch that fading sky; oh, see? silver filament looped to invisible strings, moon rewires herself to sea. .. prompted by poetic asides.
Posted in aubades, moon poems, poetic asides poems
Tagged aubades, filament, invisible strings, moon, morning, reconnection, sea, stolen kisses, tanka
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Made of Stars and Paper Skin
Japanese print maker, Kaoro Kawano (1916 – 1965). She’s tressed in umber and the scattered spill of sky. She holds the earth still; turns her face into the sun, as woodpeckers braid her hair. .. an ekphrastic tanka, for Toads. … Continue reading
helium
(a double tanka of) helium .. her mama gave her a balloon with Mickey ears. no hesitation, (fly!) she let go of the string and giggled it to the clouds. forty years later, with a full inflated heart, tired empty … Continue reading
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Tagged balloons, breathing in syllables, counting syllables, freedom, helium, letting go, OctPoWriMo, sky songs, tanka
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Inky Girl
(wearing a tank-a top) . Give her ev’ry chance to etch her words in sand, stone her demons with phrase; raise her to the sky and spill her loose. She’ll find her own way. . a tanka, prompted … Continue reading
fingerprint whispers on a vast dark clef
(a tanka inspired by Debussy’s Clair de Lune) . oh, piano man, if it tickles your fancy, play us something full – as ebony as the sky, and ivory as the moon. . written for mindlovemiserysmenagerie.
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Tagged Clair de Lune, Debussy, mindlovemisery prompts, moon poems, moon stones, poeming, poems, sky songs, tanka
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