Publicized in Tanka Society of America: 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. Tanka Society of America.

My Tanka publicized in Tanka Society of America.

song
of early summer--
my motherland
will be a coffin
of the wind

Tanka Cafe: Theme: Solitude and Loneliness

as farewell
the first snowfall--
may be
my dead parents watch me
from the top of the mountain

Selected Tanka

the wind
off the Colorado River
unties my hair--
I'd like to die
a tourist

Selected Tanka

between the dates
of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
my sweat seeps
into the small puncture hole
where they drew my blood

oh yes,
they are still crying--
Parl Harbour
inside of Linda
Okinawa inside of me