- Non-Erotic Poetry
- A couple of Tankas
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The tanka is a thirty-one-syllable poem, traditionally written in a single unbroken line.
A form of waka, Japanese song or verse, tanka translates as "short song," and is better known in its five-line, 5/7/5/7/7 syllable count form
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The joys of being a writer
Staring at the screen / Feeling words roll around my head / Yet the screen still blank / But the words rage like a storm / Waiting to burst free and live
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A heron hunts
It waits in silence / Poised ready to strike its prey / Death its final gift / It kills just to feed its young / The cycle of life goes on.
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