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Still Small Voices: : Selected Tanka Prose
The tanka prose included in this document were published in various online and print journals between July 2009 and November 2011.
A Poet in Exile: Selected Tanka
This document consists of a collection of 20 tanka, a story in verse about my life in exile.
Dawn Chorus
A poem about birdsong at dawn - if the raucous laughter of kookaburras can be called song! See this website for an mp3 of their call - scroll down and you'll find the link to it on the right: http:...
The NeverEnding Story: A Shape Poem
The NeverEnding Story is a shape poem. Its poem text is as follows: alone/in the dark/ I hang on the cross/within me/finished (in the form of a tanka)
Under the Sakura Tree
A collection of Japanese waka (poetry), from the well-known haiku to the forms of tanka and choka. Subjects range from nature, to food, to the meaning of life.
My Writing Journey in a World of One Color
This article is the preface to my book, entitled Ripples from a Splash: A Collection of Haiku Essays with Award-Winning Haiku (available through Lulu at http://bit.ly/fbsIw6), and a part of the t...
One After Another Like Waves
A collection of poem sequences written in the forms of tanka, kyoka, and goghyohka.
Sculpture of Time
A collection of tanka sequences on writing/poetry from the perspective of an immigrant
Unforgiven
I am often bewildered and overwhelmed by the cruelty and injustice humanity is capable of - and comforted by the extraordinary courage and compassion so many display. Each of us must take responsib...
A Small Collection of Tanka
'Tanka' - a Japanese form of poetry, with 5 lines and no rhyming. These versions have the first three lines as a haiku, and the last three as a katauta, giving 3 poems in one.
Windfall Apples- Stevenson
Poems! Windfall Apples is a full-length collection of tanka and kyoka.
The tanka is a serious and mannered poem of feeling and suggestiveness, often about nature, and composed within the confines o...
Slow Motion (Scribd.com Edition)
Slow Motion : The Log of a Chesapeake Bay Skipjack is the set of logs kept in verse form by M. Kei during several extended trips aboard a skipjack, a sail-powered oyster dredge on the Chesapeake Ba...
Take Five Introduction (Scribd.com Edition)
Introduction from Take Five : Best Contemporary Tanka, covering history of tanka in Japanese and English.
The River Returns: A Review
The essay examines in details the evolution of haiku and tanka vis-a-vis the poems of R K Singh
