My Dear Readers:
I'm happy to share with you this exciting news: NeverEnding Story contributor Naomi Beth Wakan published a new book, Time Together. This "collection of poems and photographs by Naomi Beth Wakan and Elias Wakan, is dedicated with love to Gabriola, the island near Vancouver, British Columbia, where the couple has lived for some twenty years. Her poetry and his photographs reflect their love and life together on this small island."
Author's Bio: Naomi Beth Wakan is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Nanaimo (2014–16) and the Federation of British Columbia Writer’s Inaugural Honorary Ambassador. She has published over fifty books. Her most recent book of essays, On the Arts, came out in 2020 (Shanti Arts). Her trilogy, The Way of Tanka, The Way of Haiku, and Poetry That Heals was published by Shanti Arts in 2019. Wakan is a member of The League of Canadian Poets, Haiku Canada, and Tanka Canada. She lives on Gabriola Island, British Columbia, Canada, with her husband, the sculptor Elias Wakan.
Selected Tanka:
my total life
a shadow flickering
across the moon
one moment here
the next I float away
to reach an age
when things fall away
unneeded
as spent petals from a flower
as skins of summer snakes
an old cabin
long deserted ...
even the chinks
sealing it safe
have gone their way
Happy Reading
Chen-ou
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