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Sunday, 9 March 2008

Three Tanka by M Kei

quiet now
sleet falling from
the grey sky
no bird flitting
through the trees


two red beaks!
somewhere,
in all that brown,
there must be
a pair of cardinals


snow mist . . .
a brown cardinal
her red beak
carrying
spring’s promise



M Kei, Maryland, USA
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2 comments:

  1. Crafty Green Poet1:30 pm

    M Kei is a Poet, Heron Sea, Short Poems of the Chesapeake Bay and
    Editor, Fire Pearls: Short Masterpieces of the Human Heart
    Moderator for Kyoka Mad Poems & Tanka Sequences

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  2. WH5:09 pm

    These are beautiful lines, which I have read more than once. Thanks for sharing.

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