written on Canada Day for new Canadians
breezy sunlight
floods the ceremony room
each new citizen
singing O Canada
in a different tone
NeverEnding Story, July 1 2020
Note: The following is a prequel to the tanka above:
for naturalized Canadians
a giant Maple Leaf
in the ceremony
I answer
to my English name
with a twinge of sadness
Atlas Poetica, 21, 2015
A Room of My Own: No-Bullshit Air Tanka
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*Yellowing Memories, *VI
first class reunion:
each one looks almost the same
just older,
except this bully-turned-priest
with a no-bullshit air
FYI: My ta...