Special Feature: TSA's Pandemic Special

My Dear Readers:

To celebrate National Poetry Month, April 2021, Susan Burch solicited and compiled tanka about the Covid19 pandemic to display them on the Tanka Society of America's Facebook page. On July 6, Christine L. Villa put together a video featuring these pandemic tanka and posted it on YouTube, titled Pandemic Special for your reading/viewing pleasure.

Selected Tanka:

we shuttle back and forth

to doctor to store to doctor to home

not sure 

whether weaving or unweaving

our lives

Peggy Hale Bilbro

these tiny screens

on the Zoom meeting window

will someone hear

the echoes of loneliness

in my quarantined world

Chen-ou Liu

assembling

a lockdown jigsaw

piece by piece

they mend the cracks

between them

 

Michelle Brock

days spent in quarantine

I kayak alone on the bay

rocked by the tides

I can almost feel the moon

pulling the ocean close

Sara Ellison

cottage garden:

on an old bike's handlebar

a basket of pansies . . .

this pandemic year

I grow more rooted

 

Susan Weaver

eyes smiling

above our masks, 

we air-hug

in the produce aisle --

the sweetness of bruised fruit

Jenny Ward Angyal

Happy Reading

Stay safe and well

Chen-ou

Added: Two Hundred and Thirty-Fifth Entry, Coronavirus Poetry Diary

a billionaire

blasting off into space ...

a masked old man

turns off the TV and walks

to the soup kitchen line

FYI: Toronto Star July 19 Podcast: Flights of Fancy: How billionaires are making space tourism blast off