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1461

Rudolph refuses
leading the sleigh on Yule Eve
good luck in that fog

he says to other reindeer
you just like my nose, not me

December 21, 2017 by brucejewett Categories: haiku, senryu, TankaTags: bullying, Christmas, peers, reindeer, tanka 3 Comments

1196

dolls nestle
within dolls
within dolls
within dolls
within spies

July 18, 2017 by brucejewett Categories: Political, TankaTags: babushka, dolls, espionage, folk art, nesting dolls, Russia, tanka

883

to make a death rattle
clear your throat politely
letting the angel
handling reservations
know you’re next

September 9, 2016September 9, 2016 by brucejewett Categories: death, haiku, Life-Death, TankaTags: angel, death, dying, transition 1 Comment

875

running, yelling
who’ll be police
who’ll be gangstas
who’ll chalk the bodies
little boys at play

August 29, 2016August 29, 2016 by brucejewett Categories: Children, Family, TankaTags: boys, gangster, play, police, summer, tanka 1 Comment

781

living in a house
of nine small rooms
then stepping outside
into bright sunshine–
our buddha nature

(Paraphrase of Daisaku Ikeda,
The Wisdom of the Lotus Sutra, vol. 4)

May 26, 2016May 26, 2016 by brucejewett Categories: Buddhism SGI, haiku, poem, poems, poetry, TankaTags: buddha, Buddhist, Ikeda, Lotus Sutra, metaphor, sgi-USA, tanka, Ten Worlds 1 Comment

777

where are the boys
up before sunrise
to hurl ink smeared
newspapers into hedges
and milk bottles

 

May 24, 2016May 24, 2016 by brucejewett Categories: haiku, poem, poems, poetry, TankaTags: deliveryboys, newspapers, newsprint, paperboy, tanka

741

splashing in rainbows
shards of strobe lightning
southern comforted soul
grates pieces of her heart
into the microphones

(for Janis, of course)

 

May 5, 2016 by brucejewett Categories: haiku, poem, poems, poetry, TankaTags: 1967, 5lines, Fillmore, Janis, performance, San Francisco, soul, tanka

669

hitch-hiking along
the Oregon coast
ten thousand candles
blaze just for me
and ships at sea

April 3, 2016April 3, 2016 by brucejewett Categories: haiku, poem, poems, poetry, TankaTags: 5lines, Cape Meares, hitch-hiker, lighthouse, Oregon, tanka

592

you’ve gone where
fully packed stadiums
wait, chant, and clap
for you to read your verse
and speak their hearts

March 2, 2016June 1, 2016 by brucejewett Categories: haiku, poem, poems, poetry, TankaTags: 5lines, fans, heaven, poet, poetry, stadium, tanka, Valhalla

537/tanka

struts and shocks are shot
on our old sturdy Camry
wife wants a new car
with no dashboard cassette deck
for my Eagles collection

六十六 (Rewrite)

January 31, 2016 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, Cats, poem, poems, poetry, Relationships, Rokuju Roku, TankaTags: Camry, car, Eagles, marriage, tanka, toyota

534/tanka

drop by drop by drop
that bamboo pail grows fuller
bangs on a boulder

a gunshot scaring away
deer feasting in the garden

六十六

January 31, 2016 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, deer, Japan, poem, poems, poetry, Rokuju Roku, TankaTags: garden, japan, Japanese garden, tanka

Dark Matter tanka

Creation’s a tree
of ornaments, lights, tinsel
so bedazzling
its dark branches go unseen
cradling the galaxies.

November 17, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, haiku, poem, poems, poetry, Tanka, WinterTags: astronomy, dark matter, haiku, physics, tanka 4 Comments

414/ tanka

maybe after all
there’s God, Angels, gold slippers
my church goer friends

catcalling downwards to me
see, told you so, told you so

October 3, 2015October 9, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, haiku, Life-Death, Philosophy, poem, poems, poetry, senyru, TankaTags: afterlife, death, god, heaven, tanka 2 Comments

405 / tanka

for jacking prices
on drugs five thousand percent
I will seek you out

to bargain with in Hades
a small drop of ice water

September 24, 2015September 25, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, Economics, elderly, Health, poem, poems, poetry, TankaTags: drugs, exploitation, greed, news, pharmaceuticals, tanka 1 Comment

377/ tanka

everyday my aunt
in her old ramshackle house
shifts hiding places


for her cash and jewelry
stumbles on hidden treasures

August 28, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, Family, TankaTags: family, jewels, tanka, treasure

329/ tanka

in Hiroshima
on a tram at ground zero
overhead wires

short out– a ferocity
of light floods the crowded car

August 5, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, haiku, Japan, Tanka, WarTags: densha, hiroshima, japan, tanka, tram, war 3 Comments

328/ tanka

where are paperboys
marauders on bicycles
flycasting ink-smeared

Chronicles into hedges
and bowling down milk bottles?

August 4, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, Northern California, Summer, TankaTags: home delivery, newspapers, nostalgia, San Francisci Chronicle, tanka

303/ tanka

She speaks of her days
As courtesan long ago
To the royal court

Her famed eyelashes spiders
Behind her fluttering fan


July 23, 2015July 23, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, Chinese poetry inspired, TankaTags: aging, courtesan, eyelashes, nostalgia 3 Comments

269 tanka

when caught in headlights 
they whip out top hats and canes
make a chorus line

that’s how shy our blacktail deer
in my town are becoming

July 10, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, deer, poetry, Tanka, WildlifeTags: chorus line, deer, haiku, haikuforcats, shyness 4 Comments

Tanka 5/14/15

Shop Bards & Beyond!

buy sonnets by the metre

frogs, fireflies, crows

to inspire your tanka

major credit cards taken


May 14, 2015May 17, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Tanka, Uncategorized, WritingTags: inspiration, poetry, tanka 3 Comments

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