Media coverage and appearance:　Contemprary Tanka Poet Mariko Kitakubo.

Contemprary Tanka Poet Mariko Kitakubo. Media coverage.

"INDIGO" is introduced in Haiku-related Facebook Group

Ms. Anna Maris, a very talented Haiku poet, invited me to the Facebook group, "Haiku books swap, buy and sell worldwide", where members can search, buy and sell haiku and related books.

I met Ms. A. Maris last year in the British Haiku Society event held in St. Albans, U.K.

I would like to express my sincere gratitude toward Ms. A. Maris for recommending Tanka anthology to the FB group.

I hope many people around the world get to know my 6th Japanese-English bilingual anthology, "INDIGO".

> click here for Facebook group "Haiku books swap, buy and sell worldwide"

Tanka Poetry book, by Mariko Kitakubo, published 2016 by Shabda Press.
ISBN: 978-0-9915772-0-0,
137 pages: ,
size: ''9.173 x 6.024",
perfect softbound,
language: English and Japanese (bilingual),
condition: new (can be personally signed!)
shipping from Japan, price: 16 US $ + postage of your choice
(I'd like to pay the postage for you. )
www.en.kitakubo.com

Monday, August 17, 2020

We Are Here: Village Poetry Anthology posted my English Tanka sequence

Village Poets' anthology, "We Are Here: Village Poetry Anthology" posted my English Tanka sequence "Borderless Prayer".

> click here to move to Village Poets website.

Borderless Prayer

rhythm of
dripping water
midnight--
when did it
turn to crimson?

overseas events
are cancelled
but our hope
won't die young
rainbow above the ocean

finding
a tiny light...
when
I rise up against
the disappointment

let's not
search for someone
to blame
we were born
to help each other

making
a spring wreath
of pansy
yellow, purple, white...
survived winter

without
color, language,
nationality...
another world
in the reflection of water

go back
to god's territory
like when
we were born
to see honesty

before
our endless
sleep
we can spread
our wings, again

tears
are meaningless
use the time
for pure
borderless prayer

Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Colorado Boulevard.net posted my writing and English tanka

Colorado Boulevard.net posted my writing and English tanka in its Poets Salon: Masked Beauty.

Mariko Kitakubo

"our lives
generation to generation
where will we go?
a small hand gives me
a sea blue facemask"

My son's family brought my grandson to my home. He is 3 years old. He said "Here you are, Grandma!"

I saw a beautiful ocean blue facemask in a sweet small hand.
Daughter-in-law felt when she found this at the shop. Oh, this is for Mother, Mariko's color Thank you so much my dearest young family.

I am sure that the reason why I love that color, is because our ancestors came from the ocean.

It's wonderful and mysterious.
generation to generation we keep our lives 37 hundred million years ago.
and from now, where will we go , if are able to survive this crisis. Then I realized that this gift was given, July 11, the date of death of my mother.

"do you go
in search of your mother
ocean
my lost earring
was lagoon blue"

Wednesday, July 22, 2020

"Distance 2020" is quoted in Haiku Sanctuary discussion

I am very honored that “Distance 2020”was quoted in a discussion topic on Haiku Sanctuary website. "Distance 2020" is a Tanka and Haiku sequence Ms. Deborah P. Kolodji and I created for an experiment of new way of expression.

I would like to thank Mr. Clayton Beach, who quoted our work on Haiku Sanctuary, and those who made positive comments.

Move to Haiku Sanctuary Website

Tuesday, June 2, 2020

"Under the Basho" posted the sequence written by Ms. D. P. Kolodji and myself

Internet magazine “Under the Basho (2020)” posted “Distance 2020”, which is the Tanka and Haiku sequence written by Ms. Deborah P. Kolodji, a Haiku poet and my close friend, and myself.

I will be more than happy if you could spend time to read the sequence created by Haiku poet and Tanka poet in California and Tokyo respectively living under the global Corona virus crisis.

>>Move to Under the Basho（2020）web page

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