#Haiku Happenings #1 (10/12/19): Charlotte Digregorio’s Tanka Time features two #tanka by Roberta Beary!
Dear Readers,
I don’t often run tanka–a lyrical poetry form of five lines with 31 syllables maximum– that originated centuries ago in Japan. However, I received two interesting ones from Roberta Beary in Ireland.
I’m sure you will enjoy these as much as I did.
Keep reading and writing in multiple genres, if you can!
Best,
Charlotte Digregorio
a chill night wind
rattles from room to room…
two years dead
and still i am not done
saying goodbye
by RobertaBeary (Ireland/USA)
GUSTS/ Tanka Society of America, 2006
gone for years
he returns
half hidden
in a ghost cloud
man in the moon
by RobertaBeary (Ireland/USA)
Modern English Tanka, Vol. 1, No. 3, Spring 2007
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