Tag: tanka
member name: El Toro Bravo de Amor
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July 05, 2007 09:18 AM EDT --
a box of darkness
kept on a closet shelf
everybody's soul
writes a solemn record
in its hidebound book
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August 12, 2007 09:31 PM EDT --
revision incorporating input from josh and Cindy.
barbwire lines
either side of this country road
barely contained
thoughts about a woman
I hardly even know
original . . .
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June 24, 2007 02:28 PM EDT --
pale yellow---
below the dome light
an adulterer
sorts through spare change
looking for his wedding ring
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June 21, 2007 09:11 AM EDT --
solstice:
willow branches weave
a shadow basket
on the red plaid table cloth
the afternoon goes on and on
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July 26, 2007 08:39 PM EDT --
adagio
choosing to include these
long slow notes
in a poem about
loneliness
due to the radical difference in Japanese and english, an english language tanka (like an english haiku) contains . . .
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July 05, 2007 09:15 AM EDT --
let me remain
in the dark unswept corners
of your ghost-town heart
like subdued moonlight
drawn through a screen
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July 23, 2007 12:42 AM EDT --
secretly-
I fastened a rose
to a witch's gate.
beyond a hedge of nettles,
the hum of insects expands
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June 11, 2007 01:10 AM EDT --
you were
constant as the heavens
strange I should miss you
in the late morning darkness
while stars fall one by one
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July 25, 2007 11:03 PM EDT --
bakery girl
lets her fingers rest
in my palm
the warmth of my change
the scent of rising dough
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