Editor’s note: We apologize for the delay in publishing the “Poetry Corner” due to technical difficulties.
POETRY CORNER
– 6/15/16
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On the train to Shanghai (Photo – Rick Wilson).
Paul Amoz Tan
along a winding road
traveling home
after a vacation
sleeping passengers
select dream memories
Paul Amoz Tan lives in Malaysia. He says his tanka is inspired by Kathabela and Rick’s trip to China and Japan.
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Two trees by Jennifer Bentson*
Peggy Hale Bilbro
March winds
clean sweep
across the plains
Texas settles
on Alabama
Peggy Hale Bilbro lives on a wooded hilltop in moist, green North Alabama; however her memories are anchored in the big sky and dusty, wind-blown cotton fields of West Texas where her life began.
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“Headed home from Northern Michigan after a great adventure” (Photo – Elizabeth Alford).
Elizabeth Alford
once on a visit
but this time is different
last time I stayed
I was running away
now I’m going home
Elizabeth Alford lives in Hayward, CA. She says “I wrote this tanka about my long distance boyfriend who lives in Detroit, MI. He’s moving with me to California in late June, but wherever we decide to live long-term, I will always feel at home in his arms.”
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*Artist Jennifer Bentson welcomed tanka Poets into her Book “Pasadena Oaks” and the Oak Tree Tea on Saturday, June 11, 2016. She makes her home among the old oaks she loves in Pasadena.
> This Poetry Corner comes to you from Kathabela, back in Pasadena again, having spent a month traveling in China and Japan: “Changing car to bus to train to plane, amidst all our adventures, Rick and I knew the destination in the end was always “home”. It has been amazing to be able to share this journey with all of you!”
One from Undergrad Days @ Reading Uni UK:
It was “take notes” through a Friday morning lecture
before off to Cemetery Junction and the A4 to London
across the city to Edgeware, and where I could join
the M1. The first 80+ miles to the Midlands was so
easy and then a slower link on A roads to the M6,
the artery to Lancashire and home – so many kindly
drivers grateful for the company: home by early evening.
(c) June 2016 C J Heyworth
Christo James (www.facebook.com/christo81) is a pen name
for C J Heyworth, retired FE and HE Lecturer, who lives in
his widowed retirement back in Blackpool, Lancashire,
NW England, where he was born.
Beautiful poems with elegant exhibitions.