Showing posts with label tanka. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tanka. Show all posts

Friday, April 8, 2016

Lucid Lines (Tanka)


soft edges dream state
pretending you are the star
behind the curtains
your understudies perform
the lead in reality





Image of painting by Edgar Degas, Four Ballerinas on stage (c.1885-90) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

After All Art (Tanka)


Make haste with your art
Make it say what you cannot
utter, honestly
hurry-I worry we won't
make it-we won't, after all.













Image of painting by József Borsos,The Dissatisfied Painter (Crisis in the Life of a Painter), 1852 [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Copyright infringement (Tanka for everything)


-rain pulsing ripples
on puddles, the spider web
demonstrating the
answers to the Theory of
Everything patent.

And then...

  Change is like that strong smell of cut grass or chopped wood that stops you still. Patterns, a symbol can be an illegible sign,  at first...