fishing for carp
this stillness
while hummingbirds
surround me
a tight line
the beauty of
letting go
how long has it been
to feel this moment again
in sway with the trees
and to see things as they are
on this homemade swing
deep summer
the child in mom
lifts her spirit
*Note, tankaku is an experimental hybrid of a tanka poem paired with a haiku. It is known that waka/tanka is the much older form of Japanese poetry that gave birth to hokku/haiku. Long story short, while writing a tanka, a haiku about it was on my mind and I put it below the tanka so it would not be forgotten. The two to me seemed to pair well which led to the creation of tankaku.
Publishing Credits, Otata Issue 49
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