Category Archives: Tanka

Stars on a Cloudy Night

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hidden from full view
stars on a cloudy night
still hurtling, burning and
singing their tunes—
unseen, I sing along

 

 

This tanka was published in Ribbons, Spring/Summer 2026: Volume 22, Number 1

 

 

 

Photo by Mary Kendall                London Night Sky

 

 

 

Sea birds ride the thermals

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A tanka published in
Gusts No. 40, Contemporary Tanka, Canada,
fall/winter 2024  

sea birds
ride the thermals
beyond steep chalk cliffs—
I wonder what they hear
in the swirling wind