home sweet home
in the promised land:
my attic room
ten-square feet with a fifth
corner of the sky
Note: The tanka above is a sequel poem to the following tanka:
alone again
with my drunken shadow ...
singing like a skylark
in the small cage
of this promised land
NeverEnding Story, September 30, 2016
Here are some of my published tanka about "Promised Land:"
ReplyDeleteour eyes meet
through the fast food window …
does this vagrant
see in me an immigrant
homeless in the promised land?
Chrysanthemum, 19, April 2016
a wedge of geese
held by Lake Ontario ...
living alone
in this promised land, I wonder
if I ever left home
hedgerow, 64, Feb 12 2016
Father once said,
the foreign moon seems rounder
than the one at home ...
alone in this promised land
I bite into a mooncake
"True Home,' Atlas Poetic Special Feature, 2016
(Note: Mooncake is the most popular and important food eaten during the Chinese Moon Festival, a harvest festival also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival)