published in Eucalypt: Mariko Kitakubo

Mariko Kitakubo Profile

Mariko Kitakubo

Born in Tokyo.
Living in Mitaka-city, Tokyo
Membership
Japan Writers' Association,
Japan PEN Club,
Association of Contemporary Tanka Poets,
Japan Tanka Poets' Society,
Kokoro-No-Hana,
Tan-Ku Co-Founder,
Tanka Society of America.

In commemoration of
15 years of tanka reading
The Latest Tanka Sequence
Original Tanka presented at
Spoken World Live

Contemprary Tanka Poet Mariko Kitakubo. Eucalypt.

My Tanka published in Eucalypt.

Eucalypt, an Australian Tanka Journal, published my latest English tanka in its Issue 34, 2023.

My sincere gratitude toward Ms. Julie Thorndyke, the editor.
Thank you very much.

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resting
in the shadow
of the baobab
one tiny species ...
echo of one thousand years

Eucalypt, an Australian tanka journal, published in its Issue 33, 2022 my tanka poem about my trip to a Northern European country for reading performance.

I would like to express my sincere thanks to Ms. Julie Anne Thorndyke, the editor of Eucalypt.

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long flight
to Stockholm
july 2022
avoidance
of Russian airspace

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let's pray
for everyone...
the border
is invisible
to the universe

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opened wide
empty suitcase...
a butterfly
before leaving
on my vogage

Thank you so much, Dearest Julie Anne Thorndyke.
Please enjoy my tanka, if you like.

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constellation
finding
sacred light
in the eyes
of perished species

 

Thank you so much for picking up my new work, the editor of Eucalypt, Julie Anne Thorndyke!

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pure indigo
settles into my heart,
when I cross borders...
I would like to die
a wanderer of this earth