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Tag Archives: Orion

Orion stands watch… (tanka)

Posted on February 22, 2017 by Mary Kendall

If you choose to hear this tanka read aloud, simply click on this link:

https://apoetintime.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/orion.m4a

 

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I am so pleased to be published for the first time in Red Lights. Edited by Marilyn Hazelton, Red Lights is one of the quality tanka journals.

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Posted in lyrical poetry, meditative poetry, poems of grief, poems of loss, Poems of Sadness, Poems of Sorrow, poetry, small poems, tanka | Tagged Orion, Red Lights a tanka journal | 1 Comment
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Some Previous Posts (see Archives for the rest)

  • On Rewriting a Poem
  • Melting snow (haiku)
  • Voices in the Wind
  • freedom is never cheap
  • Sea birds ride the thermals
  • Shape-shifting in my dream
  • Poor brown moth … (three tanka)
  • Ah, sweet memory . . . (tanka)
  • The Last Camellia (my book!)
  • Soaring voices (three tanka)
  • Catching Up with Ribbons (tanka)
  • Springtime in Verse with Mary Kendall
  • At Giverny (tanka sequence)
  • Scent of beeswax
  • A few poems in Anthologies in 2022
  • Stinging nettles
  • The last plum blossom, etc. (a mix of tanka and haiku)
  • A tiny fawn, dead… (Ukraine tanka)
  • Which way? (tanka)
  • The sweetness of honey
  • So many bodies in Bucha…
  • Brass Bell Contributions
  • Winter birds
  • Making Amends
  • Panama hat/Venice
  • Forgiveness . . . (a tanka for meditation)
  • Some Poems for Ukraine
  • Lucid dreaming
  • Dark morning & wild winds
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  • Imagination . . . (tanka)
  • The last camellia . . . (tanka)
  • My inner life . . .
  • A Pile of Published Poems…
  • Some Changes to My Blog
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  • Two of three . . . (tanka)
  • One of three . . .(tanka)
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  • The Silent Surprise
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  • The simplest thing
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  • Life as we knew it . . . (Tanka)
  • Tongue tripping . . . (a Kyoka)
  • A gathering basket . . . (tanka)
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  • A nagging thought . . . (haiku)
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  • ghosting myself . . . (tanka)
  • snow day
  • Prayer (a tanka)
  • Still the roses bloom…(a tanka)
  • Tanka No. 3: The sudden silence
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  • Faulty footing . . . (two tanka)
  • that look . . . (haiku/senryu)
  • Train of thought . . .
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  • dreams lost in dreams . . . (three haiku)
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  • The old dog . . . (tanka)
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  • No second guessing
  • Almost . . . (tanka)
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  • Frayed feathers . . . (a haiku)
  • Each coloured heart (a tanka)
  • Silence . . . (a tanka)
  • Black swan . . . (haiku)
  • Rain patter . . .(3 tanka)
  • Changing Notes (a Tanka Sequence)
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  • Chopping carrots…
  • Worry beads (Honorable Mention)
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  • Only four . . . (two tanka)
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  • No looking back… (tanka)
  • Condor’s Wings … (haiku)
  • Snow angel . . . (haiku)
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  • Twisted in shame … (two tanka)
  • The ripple of rain … (tankart)
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