Tanka Poems

LOTF-Ch.10: The Shell and the Glasses

Leaves rustled outside
Pray the beast prefers littluns
A vicious snarling
Did someone get hurt at all?
It was Jack and his hunters.

LOTF-Ch.9: A View to a Death

The beast is harmless.
I must tell everyone else.
Climb down the mountain,
but don't get the chance to tell.
Dead body in the ocean.



Rain drops on the car.
I'm inside, hoping it stops.
Can't do anything;
Tennis courts too wet to play.
If I go, I would get sick.


Icicles hanging
Snowflakes free fall to the ground
Leaves gone, trees are bare.
Carrying skiis on my back.