Cattails May 2016

 

 

Cattails May 2016
 

Cattails January 2016 Edition

    Here's a collage of my 3 tanka/tanka art appearing in the latest issue of Cattails. If you'd like to read the full issue, here's the link. http://www.unitedhaikuandtankasociety.com/

 

 

Tanka Poets on Site (January 2015 prompt - April 2015 prompt)

 

an avalanche

of memories snowballing

into grief . . .

the stories behind

a box of receipts

 

 

January 11 prompt: opening the box

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why can't life

be simplified

I'm always baffled

in the grocery aisle

of cheese

 

 

January 31 prompt: say cheese

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writing his name

on my bathroom mirror . . .

the mist disappears

just like the promise

he once said

 

 

February 5 prompt: what you draw or write on a napkin, back of envelope, etc.
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touching

the same piano keys

you once touched . . .

I learn to hum our song

on my own

 

 

February 11 prompt: instrument

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waking up

with no desire

to get out of bed

I picture the pinkness

of azalea blooms

 

 

February 17 prompt: beauty of spring

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just listening

to the plip plop of the pond

maybe this time

my heart will unwind

its bandages

 

 

March 20 prompt: healing ourselves

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not knowing

the exact moment

I knew I loved you . .

footsteps of a flamingo

at the edge of the lake

 

 

March 21 prompt: subtle

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what dreams

have I missed . . .

I stay awake

just to hear us

breathing

 

*inspired by the song "I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing"

 

Kathy Uyen Nguyen's response

 

you breathe fragments

into my hollow dreams . . .

suddenly I wake

to the dawn song unfolding

from a robin's wing beat

 

 

April 2 prompt: rhythm and rhyme

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telling me about

our old friend dancing

to Greek music . . .

are you at death's door

peeking through heaven?

 

 

April 6 prompt: peeking out of a window, a door with unexpected sight

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Tanka Poets on Site (Madame Butterfly prompt)

the words of promise
lulling her to sleep
only to wake up...
with no single sign
of a butterfly

the flutter
of her child's eyes . . .
a dandelion wish
whisks her into
another dream



prompt: Madame Butterfly
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Mindful Writing Challenge '13 - Day 12