you're a poet
with your head in the clouds
she gives me
the Bodhisattva look...
this starless summer night
Sketchbook,7:2, March/April 2012
One Man's Maple Moon: Plaintive Cry Tanka by Thelma Mariano
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*English Original*
the plaintive cry
of a sandpiper
trailing
in the distance
even he can’t say goodbye
Thelma Mariano
*Chinese Translation (Traditional)...