Posts Tagged ‘ tanka ’
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro was a Japanese waka (tanka) poet who lived during the late 7th century. Wikipedia says he was known for his elegies for imperial princes but his poems within 100 Poems from t…
Source: Poetry With Heart – ideopunk
Tanka
scattered lovers
never a husband
these cherry trees
raining petals
everywhere, nowhere
by Pamela A. Babusci (USA), Author
A Thousand Reasons: Tanka by Pamela A. Babusci
Source: Tanka by Pamela A. Babusci | Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog
Source: Tanka by Michael McClintock | Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog
What I am learning
is orchids can bloom again,
if watered,
purple petals reborn—
I could not tell you
death was coming
soon.
Source: West Hartford – Love Tanka
Spring, a robin, you, imagine that, wings unfold with mischief, love, joy enlightening the eye, our hearts breathing sun, a flower moon.
Source: West Hartford – Love Tanka
May poem prologue
be for friends twice self-addressed
as we are for this –
a journey of selves possessed
and one another loved free
Source: West Hartford – Love Tanka
To a mountain village
at nightfall on a spring day
I came and saw this:
blossoms scattering on echoes
from the vespers bell.
Nōin (988 – c. 1050) (translated by Steven Carter), in Steven Carter, Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology (Stanford University Press 1991), page 134.
Source: First Known When Lost
the half-moon rising
I watch carefree youth
gathered by the pub
swallows preparing to leave
on a long trip south
Paul Conneally
from the tanka series ‘After Fern Hill’
inspired by the poem ‘Fern Hill’ by Dylan Thomas
Image: Swallows and Willow, Woodblock Print by Hokusai
“Ue wo Muite Arukō“ (上を向いて歩こう?, literally “I look up as I walk”) is an original Japanese song. ”The lyrics tell the story of a man who looks up and whistles while he is walking so that his tears won’t fall.” ~ Wikipedia
American kid
how did Japan enter your heart?
first whistling
Ue wo Muite Arukō with the record
also hiding tears
Donna Fleischer
We Are All Japan anthology, 2012
Bittersweet At No. 1: How A Japanese Song Topped The Charts In 1963
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