Deep
in deepest forest
defeating the darkest corners
sunlight penetrates
bringing light to the unseen
illuminating my thoughts
© Rebecca Sanchez 2018
My photograph put through art filters and animated.
A tanka embracing one of my favorite things in poetry, brevity. The other is rhyme. Written for dVerse~Poets Pub.
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As One
two trees grow as one
lovers fused in an embrace
my eyes drink it in
dark brown bark turns into skin
green leaves into tousled hair
© Rebecca Sanchez 2014
Today at Imaginary Garden With Real Toads we celebrate National Handwriting Day with a handwritten poem. I share an old tanka and am afraid my handwriting has become sloppy through the years. This is the first thing I’ve written in quite a while.
Tanka…Nobe Okuri 野辺送り
a neighbor’s
funeral in new year week
fluffy snow flowers
from heaven
falling on his coffin…
©2018Rika Inami稲美里佳
My answer:
haiku #1518
snowflakes from heaven
a winter coat of sadness
covers his coffin
© Rebecca Sanchez 2018
Rika Inami is a well-known tanka poet who writes in her language and English. She takes walks in her native Japan taking photos and composing tanka about them. She’s also a friend of mine and a very sweet lady.
She posts her work daily on Google Plus and if you answer her work she’ll post it on her blog. This was my answer to her photo (above) and tanka.
tanka #41215 (The Fishwife)
feeling queasy now
butterflies-out of the way
it’s not so easy
I have a belly of fish
that never stop swimming
© Rebecca Sanchez 2015
Linking up an old poem with dVerse~Poets Pub that I wrote for this prompt which I animated.
Background: I had a very interesting word trip when I started this poem and I had to share it with you. When seeing this picture prompt I thought, I’ll write a poem about a woman with fish in her belly or fishbelly. Then I looked it up.
Besides the Jonah in the belly of the whale story, the white skin under a bathing suit line and normal fish bellies, I found this urban definition (2006), fishbelly: a bad name for a white caucasian person. Then I asked for other words and it gave me 20 related to fishbelly.
Honky, bad, caucasian, clit, clitoris, cracka, cracker, craka, fish, fish belly, fishbelly pussy, girl, puberty, pubic, twat, vag vagina, white, whitey, wonderbread. Wow!
If you caught the date, this word was re-defined in 2006. Now fast forward to now with Trump as president. Meanings like this aren’t going anywhere soon.
tanka #92017
deep within my soul
there’s an untouchable place
that only responds
to a different drummer
accompanied by steel strings
© Rebecca Sanchez 2017
An image prompt from Positively Prompted on Google Plus. Music is something that we all agree is special to us in so many ways. Shared with my friends at Imaginary Garden Of Real Toads.
tanka #9917
trapped rain drops glisten
suspended in the gloaming
bright beads on silk strands
capturing the faint moon light
worn by a cold autumn night
© Rebecca Sanchez 2017
An image prompt from Positively Prompted on Google Plus. I wrote a Tanka about this image prompt. Shared with my friends at dVerse~Poets Pub.
tanka #82717
eyes closed tight, she blew
lips forming a perfect O
cheeks pink with effort
the seeds rushed into the air
her wish following after
© Rebecca Sanchez 2017
An image prompt from Positively Prompted on Google Plus. I wrote a Tanka about this image prompt.
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