Tag: tanka
member name: Jim Ross
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September 20, 2006 01:39 AM EDT --
They didn't make a good beat but they were fascinating to watch! I wish I knew if they were trying to play music or competing in a racket contest.
Rhythm Section
A beatnik blue . . .
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September 22, 2006 12:55 AM EDT --
Don't Stare, Dad
Inquisitive scan
Nets a pair of eyes that stare
Back with innocence,
A curious wonderment,
And a blink of disbelief
Copyright 2006 Jim Ross
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September 26, 2006 05:05 PM EDT --
As Water Ripples
The fisherman sleeps
In a gently bobbing boat
Dreaming of varnish
As fish eat and circles grow
Near a line that rarely moves
Copyright 2006 Jim Ross
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September 26, 2006 05:18 PM EDT --
Yesterday's Pride
Upturned in a field
On uneven saw horses
Its paint mostly gone
The skiff waits to be toppled
When a horse leg collapses
Copyright 2006 Jim Ross
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September 26, 2006 06:24 PM EDT --
Finding a Skiff's Past
Beneath peeling paint
Spar varnish gleams above spruce
Boards fit by a plane
Sixty five years ago now
In a summer before war
Copyright 2006 Jim Ross
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October 01, 2006 03:17 AM EDT --
Coffee Klatch
Cream swirling around,
In stirred cup with time-worn chips,
Blending with coffee
Sipped by soul with laughing eyes
That smile over taste and words
Copyright 2006 . . .
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October 03, 2006 09:58 AM EDT --
Lazy Sun
No pretense was made
By the sun to greet morning
And warm my cold eyes
Though it was warned as I was
When the alarm clanged its call
Copyright 2006 Jim Ross
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October 04, 2006 01:05 AM EDT --
The Book Not Read
The pages riffled
By a baffled pre-schooler
Net a joyous laugh
At the whir of blurred paper,
Entertainment beyond words
Copyright 2006 Jim Ross
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October 06, 2006 02:39 PM EDT --
Bombs Away
acorn
robbed of head
bullets to earth
Copyright 2006 Jim Ross
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October 10, 2006 10:02 AM EDT --
Remnants in Fog
Morning light is low,
Misty world is loathe to go,
Let the sun burn bright,
Lift the fog to plant's delight,
What is left of them that grow
Copyright 2006 Jim . . .
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November 25, 2006 12:59 AM EST --
North Wind Foe
Caps of foaming white,
Icy blue Pacific waves
Run south with the wind
To break on decks and sailors
Who ply ships to all ports north
Copyright 2006 Jim Ross
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December 14, 2006 02:30 AM EST --
Intricate Voyage
I seek my friends now
In the labyrinths of fine thought
And discover them
Steaming by clear lubber lines
Home with life's treasures to share
Copyright 2006 . . .
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January 09, 2007 07:57 AM EST --
Listen to the night while your other senses rest . . .
A Strain (Tanka)
Starlit symphony,
Crystal clear orchestration
Of life after dark--
Wood nymphs breathe . . .
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October 21, 2007 06:55 PM EDT --
I can put my collection in a box
When I compose a picture of its time;
I can take the collection out and gaze
At the contrast between then and today—
Or of the kindred times between themselves; . . .
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October 16, 2006 11:55 AM EDT --
Sun Born Farewell
Shadows trail the ground
Ever-longer, deepening
As the sun drops low
Adding tree-fed tentacles
Loathe to say goodbye and go
Copyright 2006 Jim Ross
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October 20, 2006 12:50 AM EDT --
Rank Abode
Alley slick with dew
Lit in fits by boxes stacked
That reek of produce
Remnants left behind to rot
And snuggle with the homeless
Copyright 2006 Jim Ross
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October 22, 2006 12:00 PM EDT --
The Moment I Knew
A hillside in fall,
A stroll through showering trees,
Small talk and laughter
Fill the loving panoply,
Fixed by a glance that stops time
Copyright 2006 Jim Ross
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March 04, 2007 07:10 PM EST --
Twenty pigeons pecked
Leaves piled for winter's compost,
Yellow beaks bobbing
With hope for a wormy meal
You knew lay squirming beneath
Copyright 2007 Jim Ross
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July 28, 2007 12:33 AM EDT --
Perspiration drips
From a face finished with work;
Emotionless eyes
Brighten at her blithe spirit--
Joy in a three year old's jump!
Copyright 2007 Jim Ross
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September 05, 2007 12:40 PM EDT --
Watch the coffee brew--
Bubbles start to percolate,
Ideas in heat
Rising in volume to burst
And reveal what lays ahead
Copyright 2007 Jim Ross
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