My Garden
sympathetic rain
kisses my thirsty garden
hush….
Genie Nakano, August 21, 2021
Mystical Mist~~Haiku
My Garden
My Garden
Lick me
Read me like a story
lick me like a stamp...
send me to heaven
Genie Nakano,
8.19.21
Forced~~tanka
Today
I forced
the morning glory
up the trellis–
to be or not to be.
Genie Nakano, August 18, 2021
Flow~~tanka
Be like water flow into my glass one day I'll wake up singing darkness into light Genie Nakano, 2020
Haiku Workshop~~Sept. 8, 15, 22, 2021
River dreams…
So hot here in L.A. –cool soothing mists–I welcome
Flowing
down a river of dreams
cool soothing mists
my berry lips
darkened by the sun
welcome the unknown
Genie Nakano, August 15, 2020
solid~~haiku
My Dad's room all the furniture solid oak. Genie Nakano, 2019
a puzzle~~a tanka
Life is a puzzle
death a mystery
perhaps
I'll find an answer
after I die
Genie Nakano,
2019
The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth at Spillwords.com
today, tomorrow,now
Spillwords.com presents: The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth written by Genie Nakano – I was born in Boyle Heights, CA…known as the barrios of East L.A.
A Floating World…poetic history of tanka
REvised with more historical detail.
genie Nakano
Before Japan
could read or write,
tanka was called waka
performed as short songs in five lines
short long short long long
Heian imperial court
was well versed in waka
after a love affair
erotic exchanges of waka
was expected proper etiquette
Women
were the best of tanka’s golden era
yearning, soaring
tales of love, nature, war
passion prevailed
750 AD the emperor decreed
waka to be recorded for history
4,000 love poems
brushed into exquisite scrolls
Manyoshu completed in 900
five lines, waka
burning, tales of love
nature, war, erotica
themes of long ago Japan
treasured in Manyoshu
waka flourished
for hundred of years
then suddenly jaded
grew out of touch
unconnected to society
pre-world war 1
the poetry bureau censored
and controlled tanka
Asaka-Sha, brotherhood
led by Tekkan Yosan, renamed it tanka
reborn
into a…
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