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Rain … falls Damp hair curls around my fingers Tendrils slide, lively silk snakes Color of golden wheat in summer Lit by the sun as ..

Tanka

Haiku

Haiku

Let them wink in sly snideness Laughing outright their assuredness That I am but a story, told with some chagrin Made of old wives tales to scare..

Tanka - an exercise in my learning to write tanka. Comments most welcome

"The Iraqis will welcome us with open arms and greet us with flowers." ~ Dick Cheney, April 2003 How's that goin for ya, Dick?

English Tanka

Grandchildren playing in the hose on a hot summer day.

It is neither Haiku nor Senryu, I am not sure what to label it.