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Tanka
Rika Inami
(Four Seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter in Japan)
Rika Inami: Text
moonlight
shining through cloudsÂ
in layers
plays with the flow
to being full
in between
the celestial and the terrestrial
yamaboushi
receives sunlight
particles sparkling
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[Poet's Note: It is said that Cornus kousa is called Yamaboushi because the round inflorescence in the centre looks
like the head of a monk and four pieces of white involucre around the inflorescence looks like the hood of a monk.]
through the celestial
does spring festival flow
over and fall?
fascinated with an ecstatic
dance of drooping cherry
a spirit
sinking deep in a jade-green tarn
spins
soul of language only with
sunshine given by …
twigs of a plum treeÂ
resign themselvesÂ
to being unableÂ
to refuse any things …
today, sparkling in rime
Rika Inami: Food Articles
Rika Inami lives in Akita, Japan, and is a member of 'Tanka Association Mirai,' 'Muro Saisei Learned Society' and 'Akita International Haiku Network. Rika has composed tanka for about twenties years.She writes tanka in both languages, Japanese and English. First, she writes tanka in classical Japanese then carefully translates it into English. This process keeps her works true to her native language and tanka style. She thinks that poetry is the spirit of the language. Her inspiration is from her life on this planet with gravity. She has received several awards, EU-Japan NewSpace 2060 International Illustrated Haiku Competition 2019, Solution Creators Prize, Evan Prize, among others. She has authore TANKA HARAKO I, II, III and TANKA HARAKO COLLECTION 1.
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