Contemprary Tanka Poet Mariko Kitakubo.
お知らせ
My reading performance photo was inserted in the article written by Mr. Hiroshi Shionozaki, the former secretary general of the Japan Tanka Poets' Society and the former chief editor of Tanka Journal.
Friday, January 15, 2010
The Society of Women Writers NSW Inc. official newsletter "Images"
December 2009 - January 2010 Issue
Articles on the 4th Haiku Pacific Rim "Wind Over Water" in Terrigal, Australia and the 6th International Tanka Festival, Tokyo.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
10 pieces of my tanka was included in Kadokawa's "Contemporary Tanka Corpus."
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Vol. 1 LIVELIHOOD | |
| Vol. 2 LIFE | |||
| Vol. 3 NATURE | |||
| Vol. 4 SOCIETY & CULTURE | |||
| Appendix INDEX & CHRONOLOGY | |||
I am very much honored that my works are included in Kadokawa's "Contemporary Tanka Corpus", which is the encyclopedia of 3,000 tanka poems by 1,600 poets.
Vol. 1 LIVELIHOOD
-threnody- (mourning deceased mother)
sun shining
into corners of the glass door -
leaving behind
an unfinished letter,
Mother departed this life
-food- (jam)
standing there,
its back to the dining-table
where there's peach jam,
Death
casts no shadow
Vol. 2 LIFE
-juvenile- (boy)
has the green fish
been living
inside of me
since my son first
fell in love?
-married couple/parent and child- (loving mother)
sometimes
while I gaze at the sky
I'm thinking
of hydraulics, of what
my boy is studying
-family- (father)
I'm forgetting
those letters in the Cold Forest,
so stealthily
did my father
disappear
Vol. 3 NATURE
-seasons & nature- (winter)
way up high
in a bare tree
winter has come
bringing with it
letters for the deceased
-seasons & nature- (stars)
an accident
of birth:
on this same star
trees, wild beasts,
fish, people
Vol. 4 SOCIETY & CULTURE
-history & current news- (deserted village)
tranquilly ashes
continue to fall
on this ruined village
where like a scream
the silence shines
-country- (Tanzania)
how delightful are
Tanzanian place names:
'Ngorongoro'
comes rolling
out of my atlas
Monday, November 30, 2009
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