31st Indian Kukai (3rd Place)

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Ribbons Winter 2016

STUPOR

no one 

calling my name

this morning

a cup of water stays cold

in the microwave

preparations

for the memorial 

the chrysanthemums

quietly wither

on the side

an avalanche 

of memories snowballing

into grief

the stories behind

a box of receipts

every now and then 

the flicker of a firefly . . .

still in my hand

all of you I need

to let go

not accepting

what goodbye really means

my breath lingers

in every shape and sound

of spring dusk

A Hundred Gourds 5:2 March 2016

     My first tanka appearing in A Hundred Gourds.

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Seize the Poem (September 10 prompt)

 

can you see
through the remains
of my past...
inside me I know
life has never ended

 

(Me)

 

all that remains
from the underbelly
of maple leaves . . .
the scribbles of a snail
from where I once let go
of old broken things

 

(Kathy Uyen Nguyen)

 

 

 

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Tanka Poets on Site (August 9 prompt)

a baby
enclosed by her
mother's arms . . .
when does a shell
let go of her pearl



prompt: punctuation
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