Something Nice Just Happened….

Sunset, damonandamy.com

I applied for membership to the Anglo-Japanese Tanka Society in York, England.  I thought I would send two tanka to Mr. Hisashi Nakamura on the off chance that they would be accepted.  They were.

I am grateful to the Society for publishing on their site my two tanka.  Anyone who has read this blog for a while knows  I am head over heels in love with the tanka form.  I spend some days just counting  syllables on my fingers while attempting other things!

I want to thank two writers, Berowne and Nick Nicholson for their unflagging encouragement and support of my attempts to write poetry.   Both are excellent writers;  Berowne has years of knowledge of poetry, of many, many kinds, and Nick is a very fine poet himself.

This influence (of the Tanka Society) can only mean  I will be amongst poets and work that will strengthen my own attempts.  Or so I hope it to be.

Lady Nyo

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Tanka

by

Jane Kohut-Bartels

The moon floats on wisps

Of clouds extending outward.

Tendrils of white fire

Burn up in the universe–

Gauzy ghosts of nothingness.

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Shooting star crosses

Upended bowl of blue night.

Imagination

Fires up with excited gaze!

A moment– and all is gone.

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Jane Kohut-Bartels

Copyrighted, 2010

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