Issue 1 - June 2025 - Tanka page 7

at 3 a.m.
I'm sleepless yet again
and my neighbor's lights
are also on. . .
Foreclosure tilted in moonlight

Chen-ou Liu, Canada

morning drizzle
the sun appears after lunch
I bathe my face
in the light
returning to the page

Katherine E, Winnick, UK

atop the cold quay
above a wooden easel
her blond ponytail
swaying like brushstrokes
tracing the arc of the sea

Richard L. Matta, USA

the Atlantic wind
unfurling into the whirl
of a curlew's call
wave after wave shattering
in from the infinite

Joshua St. Claire, USA

misty morning
walking a narrow path
from somewhere jasmine scent. . .
for the rest of the day
you fill my mind

Ram Chandran, India

this drop
of honeysuckle nectar
how to make
the sweetness last
until the day is done

Jenny Ward Angyal, USA