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Posted on Mar 17, 2023Feb 26, 2026

Poetry Collection: Fleeting Songs, Eternal

My journey along the winding, wistful, wond’rous way that is Japanese poetry.

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Posted on Mar 7, 2023

One More Drop Of Coffee

Coffee-disk.

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Posted on Feb 20, 2023

Time-Begotten

Hist’ry-layered.

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Posted on Jan 31, 2023

Twirling Doodles

Well-lived.

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Posted on Nov 5, 2022Nov 5, 2022

Our Aft’noon/Eve In Haiku

Here where the lake’s submerged this bench.

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Posted on Aug 28, 2021

Upon The Floodplains Of The Nile

Crocodiles hold union on the marsh.

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Posted on Aug 3, 2020

Fleeting Songs, Eternal: the tanka & the sonnet

Little song. Short song.

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Posted on Jul 31, 2020

ありあけ

あさがとりまとめます.

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Posted on Mar 9, 2020Sep 16, 2020

A Tanka In Japanese

Asoko…

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Posted on Feb 18, 2020Feb 18, 2020

A Tanka By The Banks(a)

Hikari…

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Posted on Dec 8, 2019

Write

Boku wa…

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Posted on Dec 5, 2019

Approach (Haiku)

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Posted on Nov 4, 2019

Tanka Desune

Watashidake.

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Posted on Oct 12, 2019

Samurai Tanka

Itsumo no keikai.

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Posted on Oct 5, 2019Oct 5, 2019

Unintentional Zappai

Not many.

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