a hissing breeze rushes through the leaves sensed in a strong wind then i can't not hear it even in a trickled breeze
Hissing Breeze Tanka
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Muddy Water Tanka
pristine flower blooms in muddy water; its fragrance drowns out the scent of rot until it feeds the mud
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POEM: Ripples & Stillness
ripples expand from some unseen center where a fish feeds, and when stillness returns i welcome its short life
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Milky Glow Tanka
boulder churned water sloshes to mist, sunlit white -- its milky glow rounds the gentle riverbend
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POEM: Newly Evergreen [PoMo Day 16 – Tanka]
under spring skies, the evergreen - thick with new needles - echoes the tune sung by hardwood neighbors
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POEM: Humbling Rest [PoMo Day 12 – Kyōka]
panting, i sit on a rock, beside the trail, watching porters pass loaded with logs and plywood -- followed by cows, and goats, and...
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POEM: Prayer Flags [Tanka]
flags flapping, twisting on a line, colors bright on the arid mountain -- desolation décor
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POEM: Volcanic Tanka
the cone looms as the city's backdrop, drawing the eye -- some things are prettier in death than in action
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A Kyōka on Uninhabitable Islands
River Boulder Tanka
smooth boulders
dragged ever so slowly,
tumbling in floods,
sitting so far from the river
that they seem untouchable
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