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Tanka · Tanka is Japan's oldest poetry form. Traditionally a tanka has five lines with 5-7-5-7-7 syllables. In English some count sylla
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Lary, really enjoyed your tanka. Bill ... From: Laryalee Fraser To: Tanka@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 1:37 PM Subject: [Tanka] the tug...
Billy
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long time companion always brightly radiant now I block you out with sun-screen and grandfathers old hat Bill [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Billy
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her green eyes follow me across the room our bodies touch stopping dead in my tracks "I forgot to feed the cat" Gene...
Gene Murtha
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... From: Gene Murtha To: Tanka@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 3:45 AM Subject: [Tanka] her green eyes her green eyes follow me across the room ...
Carole MacRury
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In a message dated 7/1/2005 11:30:49 AM Eastern Standard Time, macrury@... writes: her green eyes follow me across the room our bodies touch stopping...
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... her green eyes follow me across the room our bodies touch stopping dead in my tracks "I forgot to feed the cat" Gene this is great started my day right off...
M. Shanna Moore
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great image. My cat goes out and brings home dead mice when I don't fill his bowl up on time. :-) There ought to be a way to make that into a tanka. norla ...
Norla Antinoro
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Jul 1, 2005
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thanks folks, have save and wonderful holiday. I am sure that you could Norla. The kitten made me think of an old free form poem that I write about 9 years...
Gene Murtha
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Your call unexpected coming yesterday tongue-tied me mind struggles like a dream-runner expression lost, a storm disconnects Helen Kinsella...
Helen Kinsella
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Jul 2, 2005
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... "but don't the green eyes belong to the cat? Betty" Actually, yes they do Betty. Good eye! I should have put a little more thought behind this poem(?)...
Gene Murtha
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... An interesting poem Helen, thank you for the read. Gene...
Gene Murtha
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Gene, Thank you for your comments. I am so glad you liked it. Helen Sorry if this is a duplicate. I sent it once before but it never showed up on the list...
Helen Kinsella
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... From: Gene Murtha To: Tanka@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 1:31 AM Subject: [Tanka] Re: her green eyes / good eye Betty! oops.. ... "but...
Carole MacRury
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Jul 2, 2005
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a deep sigh as she heaves her breasts from one day to the next there is barely enough time to begin again andrew riutta 07.02.05...
Andrew Riutta
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summer glows between her legs a woman who I have never known who I will never know andrew riutta 07.02.05...
Andrew Riutta
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... you ... toward ... into those ... don't ... Hey Carole: Well, Betty may not have had a problem with my poem, and just realized that I was referring to a...
Gene Murtha
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... Slut ... <grins> Just kidding. I like the image though I would change a couple of images. Possibly show a [tan line] or something? This reminds me of...
Gene Murtha
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... From: Gene Murtha To: Tanka@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 12:37 PM Subject: [Tanka] Re: her green eyes/ Carole & July 4th ... you ... ...
Carole MacRury
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rattlesnake coiled on the canal bank where I fish in the morning sun predators face off Darrell...
Darrell Byrd
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... From: Andrew Riutta To: Tanka@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 11:52 AM Subject: [Tanka] a deep sigh a deep sigh as she heaves her breasts ...
Carole MacRury
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... From: Andrew Riutta To: Tanka@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 11:58 AM Subject: [Tanka] summer glows summer glows between her legs a woman ...
Carole MacRury
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... From: Darrell Byrd To: Tanka@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 2:10 PM Subject: [Tanka] Rattlesnake rattlesnake coiled on the canal bank where...
Carole MacRury
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... From: Carole MacRury To: Tanka@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 2:10 PM Subject: Re: [Tanka] a deep sigh ... From: Andrew Riutta To:...
Carole MacRury
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when finally my chest was opened to mend this ailing heart they found a small boy playing hide-and-seek Michael E. C & C always....
Michael L. Evans
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... I like this poem Mickael. After reading the first three lines of your tanka, I felt that the final two lines would be full of self pitty. It wasn't....
Gene Murtha
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... From: Carole MacRury To: Tanka@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 2:08 PM Subject: Re: [Tanka] summer glows ... From: Andrew Riutta To:...
Carole MacRury
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... Andrew - I wonder if your two final lines may not be over-written; do you really need either "who", or both "I"s, or "know" in line 5? What about something...
Michael L. Evans
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... Thanks, Gene - Self pity? HARDLY!! My prognosis was for a probably fatal heart attack within a year, at the longest - VERY possibly within weeks. Two...
Michael L. Evans
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when finally my chest was opened to mend this ailing heart they found a small boy playing hide-and-seek Michael E. C & C always. Oh Michael... this moves me so...
Laryalee Fraser
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Jul 3, 2005
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... "but don't the green eyes belong to the cat? Betty" Actually, yes they do Betty. Good eye! I should have put a little more thought behind this poem(?) The...
Laryalee Fraser
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