NaPoMo,April 23

Another tanka by Larry Kimmel who remains one of my all-time favourites.

a name and an epitaph

blurred by green moss--
life in the end

little more than a dash

between two dates

Larry Kimmel

NaPoMo, April 10

A poet of his caliber doesn't need any introduction among haiku and tanka lovers.
He is inimitable, Larry Kimmel... and I simply love all his poems. Many of his tanka are much-known and much-read; so I am just picking up one here randomly and hoping that not too many of you have read it before.

at the chapel window

the wind-stirred bittersweet...

lately,

and I don't know why,

great age seems unnecessary

Larry Kimmel

Tanka today

Pamela A Babusci -(the well-known poet and editor of Moonbathing, for the benefit of my other readers) - has very sweetly sent me two tanka links to help me learn the form. I don't know how far I am getting ahead with the "learning" part, but these links turned out to be a virtual treasure trove of such wonderful tanka by practically all my favourites, that I could sit here all day reading them and even if I don't write anything ever, who cares because now I know that I could never write poetry even half as good!

for fifty years
through all the weathers
of the mind,
I have loved the world with my eye
...if nothing else, that

Larry Kimmel