One Man’s Maple Moon: Love Tanka by Pamela A. Babusci

English Original

do not ask
forever of me...
i am capable
of loving you to death
one day at a time

Searching for Echoes, TSA Member's Anthology  2003

Pamela A. Babusci


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

不要永遠地
要求我...
我能夠
愛你至死
一天一次

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

不要永远地
要求我...
我能够
爱你至死
一天一次


Bio Sketch

Pamela A. Babusci  is an internationally award winning haiku, tanka poet and haiga artist. Some of her awards include: Museum of Haiku Literature Award, International Tanka Splendor Awards, First Place Yellow Moon Competition (Aust) tanka category,  First Place Kokako Tanka Competition,(NZ) First Place Saigyo Tanka Awards (US), Basho Festival Haiku Contests (Japan).  Pamela has illustrated several books, including: Full Moon Tide: The Best of Tanka Splendor Awards, Taboo Haiku, Chasing the Sun, Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka, and A Thousand Reasons 2009. Pamela was the founder and now is the solo Editor of Moonbathing: a journal of women’s tanka; the first all women’s tanka journal in the US.