Song Tanka Poems

Waves call out in song,
Sea breeze teases sunlit hair—
Sands of time await.
Flip-flops mark our path to peace,
Horizon holds dreams aloft....

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Last night I dreamt of a violent thunderstorm, one that would quickly ravish the land. I stood on my back porch watching and listening, the...

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sound of the guitar
and joy of a listener,
probe of the singer,   
the cool lovely dance of souls,
so simpatico abstract...

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the best and sweetest
things in life cannot be bought--
music of the birds at dawn
rainbow in the sky
dazzling magic of the stars
and the miracle of light
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Pearl moon of music
drifting from night's dark window
the silver moon's song
Pretty notes from heart of night
and roses red in their beds

Milky moon love tune
Lilac fragrance...

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My Yuletide joy is
To feed poor and hungry ones
Come in from the sleet
The parents humbly thank God
Children sing the song Noel...

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Autumn Reveries

Autumn spills over
In waterfalls of scarlet,
Golden cascades flow,
Umber symphonies tumble
With magenta fantasies.
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Ono no Komachi Translations

These are my modern English translations of the ancient Japanese poems of Ono no Komachi…

"It's over!"
Your words drizzle like dismal rains,
bringing tears,
as...

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My parchment soul song 
Bells bloom from Angel’s pearl wings 
Gardens bow with grace
My heart rings with fire love
Notes lock in legacy Lord

 February 17th...

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i

when the sun is erotic
and the moon lyric
the winds turn tempestuous
in the orbit of love
legs slide by calls of nature

ii

you and I alive
in cold winter...

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today’s conch bead lei -
aloha Lahaina &
lokelani rose
nod & prayer from the mainland
grieving your loss, your song heard...

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Yellow and pink hued
ruffled petal elegance
Magnetic beauty
drawing crowds in days so long
Simmering sunshine shadows

Time flees chase of life
around the corner of blooms
where music's playing
Blue skies...

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Soaring in orange
kingfisher blue in the sun
beyond red roses
Afternoon has come softly
smothered by the summer heat

Oblivious bird
making the most of each day
by still silver lakes
Trills...

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Autumn is golden
mirrored in still glinting lake
Sunbeams through plum trees
Nature's so long symphony
when birds soar in sympathy

Tiffany skies chills
pink robin is still singing
to an empty...

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Once upon a time 
when I was a child of three   
looking at the stars 
and whispering to the moon,  
I sang...

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