Issue 3 - December 2025 - Tanka page 2


stand
of the tide-
two herons
high-stepping
through plastic

Lorraine A Padden, USA

a poem burns
in the fireplace
her last words rising
through a crooked chimney
into blue sky

Robert Witmer, Japan

blood
on the battlefield
the bones
of the world
have been broken

Mel Goldberg, Mexico

brutal winter
you left
my skin
chafed and
bleeding

Bonnie J Scherer, USA

in deep autumn
we meet, stoic as clams
by the ocean--
your face grown hard with time,
draws me back into shadows

Marion Alice Poirier, USA


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