Monday, June 10, 2024

A Room of My Own: Church and World Tanka

reading between the lives and writing between the lines, LXXXIV

this winter day
both blindingly bright
and punishingly cold
I walk out of the church
admitting I love the world more


Added: 

Against the Drowning Noise
inspired by cicada-palooza!

alone again ...
in the swarm of red eyes
one blue-eyed cicada

loud, louder
and sexually aroused ...
meandmydrunkshadow


FYI: Two cicada "broods," trillions of cicadas,  are set for a rare double emergence that last occurred in 1803. And blue-eyed cicadas are often called “One in a Million,” a phrase coined by Gene Kritsky, an entomologist at Mount St. Joseph University.

And the last haiku could be read as a prequel to the following one:

waning summer
cicada's mating song
in every pore

Modern Haiku, 48:3, Autumn 2017

Damir Janjalija


Added: reading between the lives and writing between the lines, LXXXIV

Pacific waves
Chen-ou Eric two names meet
and part here not here


FYI: This could be read as a sequel to the following tanka:

like a bat
trying to be both bird and mouse
I waver
Eric one moment
Chen-ou the next

A Handful of Stones, March 10 2011


Added: reading between the lives and writing between the lines, LXXXV

the rise and fall
of a summer moon
I alone
on the other shore
of this promised land

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