Category: Tanka

• 11/29

  we long for peace it seems to surround us but perhaps it is only darkness falling with its uneven temper ——————— In response to Jennifer Knoblock’s plaintive poem, Winter.

  Jenifer

  November 29, 2015

  Meditation, Muse, Political struggle, Seasons, Tanka

  poetry

• 11/7

  slow ticking of the fan overhead brings back the rain that day how it poured down on us

  Jenifer

  November 8, 2015

  Bite-sized sampler, Love, Muse, My window at night, Seasons, Tanka

  poem

• Walk in woods

  this morning I yearned to become that yellow leaf twirling down, catching an edge of the sun spinning past

  Jenifer

  October 27, 2015

  Bite-sized sampler, Death, Garden, Illinois, Nature, Pentwater, Robert Frost, Seasons, Tanka, Yoga

  poetry

• 8/21

  hand twirls me in the dark, propels me to dance — forever forward, ever from nowhere

  Jenifer

  August 22, 2015

  Childhood, Family, Memory, Muse, Tanka

  poem

• A prayer

  I approach thee in thy round heaven brown, incarnate — your glow soft, flickering as my eyes close to forget you are near always and ever hiding in darkness, in view only when sleep comes to rescue me as a lingering taste on my back palate as a lingering shadow in the descendant fog —…

  Jenifer

  May 24, 2015

  Aging, Dying, Grand tanka, Meditation, Muse, Tanka, Yoga

  poetry

• Day 6

  empty lanterns, with leaf-littered, winter-worn skin, dangle in the dark breeze, biding your time, doubting

  Jenifer

  April 6, 2015

  Aging, Dying, Garden, Meditation, Muse, Seasons, Tanka

  NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka