Publicized in Tanka Society of America: Mariko Kitakubo

Selected tanka 

floating lanterns
on the Motoyasu river
in Hiroshima ...
foster Mother
of so many bodies

Tanka Cafe. Theme ; Novels 

blue sky 
or mushroom clouds, 
the last view 
of our future 
Saint-Exupery 

 

Selected tanka 

long sacred sleep 
in the wooden drawer ... 
does he waken 
when I wind it 
great -grandpa's watch

 

Rerponsive Tanka 

Hiking at Coyote Wall 
Mariko Kitakubo & Margaret Chula 

 wind, sunshine 
a meadowlark's song 
in the endless sky 
I become invisible 
at the edge of heaven 
(Mariko) 

growing profusely 
along the rocky trail 
clumps of poison oak 
the Japanese poet wears 
rubber boots and latex gloves
(Margaret ) 

when I saw 
Mt. Hood from the hillside
remembering Fukushima
can they survive radiation
yellow wildflowers?
(Mariko) 

 here and there
cricket sounds
from the tall grasses
laughter of women
as they pass around chocolate
(Margaret ) 

Tanka Sequences　"The Great Door"

please
don't set out for
your last trip...
it's snowing
like approaching shadow

opening
the great door
of astronomy --
I close my eyes
to hear your voice

cardiogram
the waves
in my heart
keep working
ignoring the accident

at the market
among the purple grapes
a few
young green ones ...
thinking about my son

Tanka-Cafe; Theme "The Shadow of things"

shadow
on the leaf mold--
ancestral
gene awake
in my silhouette

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