Ice ferns . . . (tanka)

Posted on January 26, 2019 by Mary Kendall

Presence Issue #62, 2018

scraping ice ferns

off the windows

of our old jalopy –

such fragile beauty

soon pushed aside

Photo by eddy on ‘Unsplash’

The old dog . . . (tanka)

Posted on January 26, 2019 by Mary Kendall

Tanka Society of America 2018 Members’ Anthology:
Of Love and War and the Life In Between

almost toothless

the old dog sleeps

by the fire . . .

the peace of knowing

you are there

This poem is dedicated to all beloved, faithful dogs for the pure joy they bring.

Black feathers . . . (two tanka)

Posted on January 25, 2019 by Mary Kendall

Skylark, Tanka Journal 12,
Winter 2018 (6:2)

black feathers

scattered

under a bush—

the unspoken truth

gone forever

~

in an old book

a letter, ‘address unknown’

a million miles away

a new star is born,

another dies

Indigo ink . . . (tanka)

Posted on January 25, 2019 by Mary Kendall

Moonbathing, A Journal of Women’s Tanka,
Issue 19, Fall/Winter 2018

indigo ink

on vellum paper—

all those dreams

of making a different life

for myself

Picking stars apart (two haiku)

Posted on January 24, 2019 by Mary Kendall

Blithe Spirit, Journal of the British Haiku Society,
Volume 28 Number 4, November 2018

picking stars apart one by one long winter nights

Milky Way by Felix Mittermeier

summer mirage—

what childhood

might have been

Photo by Pezibear (Pixabay)

Loneliness . . . (three tanka)

Posted on January 24, 2019 by Mary Kendall

Blithe Spirit, Journal of the British Haiku Society,
Volume 28 Number 4, November 2018

Three tanka were published in Blithe Spirit this past November:

Snow Landscape by Hans Braxmeier

winter woodland

bereft of birdsong

with your passing

even clear days

are shadowed

Photo by Frantisek Krejci

together so long

we seem to finish

one another’s sentences,

fluent in the pauses

of each other’s mind

Universe by Gerd Altmann

loneliness

comes and goes,

dancing around

my mind

with two left feet