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,
Tanka Society of America.
Tan-Ku Co-Founder
Tan-Ku Association, president

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.

maybe
I can believe
in destiny --
spring rain reads
my outstretched palm

(ひと滴の雨にうるめる運命を信じてもみむ 春のてのひら)

this havest moon
sails beyond time and space...
there is no border
between life and death
for those I have truly loved

the days
of the end of my life
will come --
a cat is yawning
in the ruined village g