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Romantic Poetry Forum: Summer, June 2023
A June tanka meeting record reflects on the language of extreme heat and discusses poems of remembrance and everyday observation.
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Romantic Poetry Forum: Spring, May 2023
A May tanka meeting record considers changing attitudes to the pandemic and the importance of reading a poem’s clues carefully.
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Romantic Poetry Forum: Spring, April 2023
An April gathering in Kinugasa combines tanka discussion with reflections on the Buddha’s birthday and a local historical walk.
- Poetry & creative work
The Bell Cricket Calls
The sound of autumn crickets becomes an insistent invitation, mingling seasonal change with the image of a pilgrim’s bells.
- Poetry & creative work
Ghosts of Sorrow
A poem gives unexplained sadness the form of ghosts from the past, whispering around the memory of someone who has gone.
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A New Me
A poem imagines each morning as a personal renewal, looking toward changing tastes, relationships and possibilities.
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A Passing Summer Shower
A summer downpour mirrors anger and grief before it abruptly passes, leaving the speaker beneath drifting clouds.
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Friends
A poem expresses gratitude for friends’ support and the wish to become strong enough to offer comfort in return.
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A Wretched Fool
A poetic speaker wakes in hospital, struggling with shame and gratitude while words for new poems begin to emerge.
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So it Goes.
A Japanese poem borrows Vonnegut’s familiar phrase while questioning how to live honestly amid uncertainty.
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Man is Mortal
A Japanese poem uses an English refrain to reflect humorously on possessions, memory and the journey beyond life.
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A Dark Fate
A journey through the cedar-lined road to Nikko becomes an image of a difficult love and a fate two people hope to share.