Issue 3 - December 2025 - Tanka page 10

his arthritic fingers

touch the bamboo flute...

a steady downpour

of melody

on a cloudy night

Padma Priya, India

wiping

      white surfaces

                 of blemishes

       her fixed smile

  gleaming

John Hawkhead, UK

je ne sais quoi

how do i describe

my feelings

about

dappled light?

Pegah Rahmati Nezhad, Iran

a loon cries

into the night

I hear

that you are happy

without me

Jon Hare, USA

snow geese

ocean bound

for another shore

the promises from you

already distant

Joanna Ashwell, UK

a flock of robins

roosts in trees along the canal

where sumac berries

grow soft and thick

against my winter gray

Debbie Olson, USA

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