My Dear Readers:
To commemorate the Tanka Society of America's 20th anniversary, Susan Burch solicited and compiled "taiga" (haiga featuring tanka) to display on the society's Facebook page. And Christine L. Villa put together a video featuring these taiga and posted it on YouTube, titled TSA 20th Anniversary Taiga Showcase.
Selected Tanka (featured in Taiga Showcase):
beginning again
without you
every day
a journey
into foreign lands
Julie Thorndyke
slowly I surrender
to my hearing loss
the quietness
of hard rain
pelting windows
Pamela A. Babusci
in this world
love has no color --
yet how deeply
my body
is stained by yours
Izumi Shikibu
biking
through the redwoods
this existence
bigger than my mind
can grasp
Susan Burch
hair damp
from the salt air
my toes
anchor into this strange beach
your last kiss still lingering
Pris Campbell
rootling
in the window sill ...
how long
until I feel the earth
under my feet
Julie Bloss Kelsey
Happy Viewing/Reading
Chen-ou
Wonderful,
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