Brass Bell June 2022
Theme: One line haiku
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lucid dreaming wild-eyed pansies glancing back and forth
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Note: All pansy pictures are taken from Pinterest. No specific photographers were listed.
Author Archives: Mary Kendall
Dark morning & wild winds
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Kokako #36, Spring 2022
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It’s always a joy to have the New Zealand poetry journal, Kokako, publish some of my poetry. For their spring issue, they chose a one-line haiku and two tanka. I hope you enjoy them.
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seabirds drift on thermals—night becomes day
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cassia, lady slippers,
dutchman’s breeches, rue –
my garden becomes
the one circle of friends
I find it hard to leave
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dark morning
filled with wild winds
that blow the birds awake
& by the crows’ swift,
and sharp reply
Inner Life . . . (tanka)
The third (and last) tanka published in the latest issue of Gusts:
does inner life
start or end in the heart
I heard it for the first time
in a deep red canyon,
that distant river of me
GUSTS no. 35, Contemporary Tanka,
Spring/Summer 2022 Tanka Canada
Imagination . . . (tanka)
Universe by Gerd Altmann
A second tanka published in the spring/summer issue of Gusts:
imagination . . .
the only place it’s always
safe to go and wander,
just the songs of stars
and sweep of ice-drifts
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GUSTS no. 35, Contemporary Tanka,
Spring/Summer 2022 (Tanka Canada)
The last camellia . . . (tanka)
In the latest issue of GUSTS, I’m so pleased to have three tanka published. I will enter each of the three poems separately in my blog. Remember, tanka is best read aloud so you can hear the music in the poem.
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GUSTS no. 35, Contemporary Tanka,
Spring/Summer 2022 (Tanka Canada)
the last camellia
blooms in late winter—
it has taken a lifetime
for me to notice
beauty in myself
My inner life . . .
Brass Bell March 2022, Theme: Things That Make Us Happy
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a bit unkempt
this cottage garden,
my inner life
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A Poet in Time 