Poetic Musings: Marble Tanka by Ingrid Kunschke

fed up with winter

I look through a marble:

red sunset,

the rings of Saturn,

bubbles under thick pack ice

                                     

Gusts, 12, 2010

Ingrid Kunschke 

Commentary: This tanka coveys the concept of the sense of sight in several ways. The author is initially looking for something brighter in her life (fed up with winter). This leads her to look into a marble. In doing so she sees worlds beyond her own that exist both inside the marble, and outside in the real world.

-- excerpted from "To the Lighthouse" post, "Sensing Tanka: Perceiving Life Beyond the Ordinary" by David Terelinck