Based on Chinese Poetics
moonlit pond…
are frogs asleep
tonight?
flower moon --
its eyes on the flowing clouds
a frog
this frog
crouches on a lotus leaf --
reciting Basho
the frog
shatters the moon’s face...
alone by the pond
Magnapoets, #7
One Man's Maple Moon: Fire and Ice Tanka by Jane Reichhold
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*English Original*
fire and ice
in the obsidian
the memory
of flowing lava
under new-fallen snow
*Ardea*, 5, 2015
Jane Reichhold
*Chinese Translation (...
