My Dear Friends:
NeverEnding Story contributor, an'ya, published the 2025 Songbirds Online WAKA Anthology as a digital flip book . The mission at Songbirds Online is to "preserve the songlike rhythm of Tanka and its predecessor Waka."
Selected Tanka:
I waited all-day
your absence a restless ache --
now this winter night
a chill that won't let go
wraps around my heart
Neena Singh
each heartbeat
lost in these pines --
when did love
become a fixed point
for our loneliness
Joanna Ashwell
days like beads
on a broken necklace
scatter ...
all leave behind
regrets and love lost
Dawn Bruce
dewdrops freeze
on a bed of fallen leaves
her scent
pressed into the pillow
pressed against my broken heart
Robert Witmer
in a summer sky
temple doves somersault
into wing song
my thoughts are far away
on the sands of time
Kala Ramesh
night descends
and fireflies light up
the meadow
you trace a star map
across my belly
Debbie Strange
the open gate
leading to wide fields
how quietly
my child has outgrown
the circle of my arms
Nitu Yumnam
no longer
waiting for her return
I open
the window and my heart
letting in the dawn chorus
Chen-ou Liu
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