Tanka # 40

Photograph Frantisek Drtikol 1883-1961

Famished poem…
in the moonlight
her almond-flower skin
skyward heaving
a breathless sigh

Tanka # 39

Photographer unkown

All my ink…
dewdrops rolling
along her skin,
etched veins flooding
with liquid bolts of light.

Haiku # 209

Morning star…
in the eye of silence
a white flower

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By the old mill
the dying larva
became a butterfly

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First summer days…
how quickly life flows,
withering spring flower

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Casting her face
a cover over the world…
sun at dawn

Tanka # 38

Misted seas,
on dark wings
a lone bird flying…
no shore ahead
to echo his call

Senryu # 120

Honing the night
into a lightning of stars…
her dark eyebrows

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All the stars…
fireflies swarming
in the sea
of her eyes

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His touch
on her skin…
a forest in flames

Tanka # 37

Below her armpit,
on her ribcage
he engraved a poem
the stars alone can read,
only the silent lips of dawn.

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The swell
of their passion…
the nightsky rent
to a crumbling heap,
a liquid sea of stars.

Tanka # 36

Lowering her hips
onto his seething flame,
the lubricated pierce
rippling in waves
through their merging bodies