Saturday, September 12, 2015

Tanka--By Elizabeth Howard--United States

morning sun
burning away the fog--
in slow motion
the barn's cupola and ridge . . .
at last the horses
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autumn breeze
red and yellow leaves
twirling and swirling . . .
a disheveled sparrow’s
hard landing on the porch
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relentless heat--
red dust shimmers
over the cracked earth,
a hollow clap of thunder
in the far distance
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Elizabeth Howard lives in Crossville, Tennessee. She writes poetry and fiction. Her poems have appeared in Comstock Review, Big Muddy, Appalachian Heritage, Cold Mountain Review, Poem, Still, Mobius, Now & Then, Slant, and other journals.

6 comments:

  1. Especially like that first tanka as everything is slowly revealed...

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  2. beautiful tanka poems - love the vivid descriptions

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  3. Yes nothing like a foggy morning. Love that final line of seeing the horses..
    A lovely collection of moods and images. SuZ

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  4. Wonderful, these pictures from life's better side.

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  5. I love Tankas, and yours are surely a wondrous treat to read. I really enjoyed reading these marvelous poems this evening. What a lovely set of Tankas you have written, great work.

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