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: Welcoming Warmth Tanka by Thelma Mariano
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*English Original*
across the darkness
lights on the far shore beam
a welcoming warmth
like the friends and lovers
we will meet by reaching out
Thelma Mari...