Featured Poet:
The daily practice of crafting tanka is akin to writing lyrics. It connects me more closely to the natural world, and to myself.
Best Tanka:
migrating geese
writing cursive letters
across the sky
I finally read between
the white of your lies
Runner-up
British Haiku Society Tanka Awards, 2014/15
f i s s u r e s
and (whose) fault lines
cracking open
we try to mend the damage
of our quaking lives
Undertow Tanka Review 1, August 2014
Tanka of my choice:
the growth rings
of otoliths and trees . . .
when did she
become smaller
become smaller
than her daughters
2nd Place
United Haiku and Tanka Society Fleeting Words Tanka Competition 2017
the pair bonds
of prairie voles . . .
she asks
if he used to be
her husband
3rd Place
United Haiku and Tanka Society Fleeting Words Tanka Competition 2017
the architecture
of impending storms . . .
every cloud
that hangs over me
has a given name
Honourable Mention
United Haiku and Tanka Society Fleeting Words Tanka Competition 2017
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