Conduit Each morning I sit with first cuppajoe, notebook, and pen; one cat on my lap and one beside. Between the beginning of July and the end of August, one poem per day has been committed to be written for a poetry postcard festival. By mid-August the creative process is feeling forced. I’ve written poems…
Category: tanka
24 SSPC 49 (2nd week) Fading Heat (Aug 23 -Sept 6, 2024) Shosho (tanka series)
Only twenty bucks,fall planting garlic for sale.Thank you but no thanks.Don’t get me wrong; I love it,olive-oiled jarred, minced for two. Tomato packet said purple, plenty, and dwarf;none of them apply.Instead, dark red, few, and bignow supplement bought bushels. What was I thinkingby not planting zucchinithis perfect growing season?I also skipped sunflowers;chipmunks and birds mystified….
24 SSPC 48 (1st week) Fading Heat (Aug 23 -Sept 6, 2024) Shosho (tanka)
Dark berry border menagerie of beaked joy spoils my appetite; but one conscience rests easy in today’s fresh autumn air. Every year I say I will go out and pick ripe blackberries and raspberries. Every year I might pick a couple on a stroll through the yard. 99+% go to the birds and that’s OK,…
dVerse OLN — little patters (tanka prose)
“and don’t forget Chessie” by Viennese artist, Guido Gruenwald Little Patters rain patters through dusklike long-gone feet of toddlers’playtime before bedmemories of clean Pjs,oft-told stories, nodding heads The image I chose today to accompany the tanka has sentimental value. My stepdad worked for the C&O Railroad for many years and retired from there. I happened…
24 SSPC 45 — (2nd week) Sweltering Heat (0722 – 0806) Taisho 大暑 (tanka)
Purple Reign’s still green, lost in the texture of it; rejuvenated, rain will grant lush promises: wet chins with every bite. Note: purple reign is a variety of heirloom tomato. This is a pic of mine from this morning. No sign of purple yet. It rained heavily all day yesterday, which every living thing loved….
24 SSPC 42 (1st week) The Beginning of Midsummer: Growing Heat (July 7 – 21) Shosho 小暑 (tanka)
slight wind tickles chimesat the labyrinth’s entrancein acknowledgmentof my presence, intentionto meditate, in cool shade tanka form kigo: wind chimes, cool shade Colleen Chesebro is the host of TankaTuesday. Colleen wants us to write syllabic poetry using kigo for the season.
ikebana (tanka)
with ikebana crystal moment magnified all else stripped away past and present disengaged tomorrow’s death unconceived ikebana defined Note: this arrangement was on a counter near the coat racks at FMG this past Tuesday. There are always beautiful arrangements there. Not that coat racks aren’t pretty, but I finally figured out how to use the…
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