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Tanka of the Week (via The Tanka Society of America)

Winning Tanka of the TSA 2008 International Tanka Contest

First Prize:

old memories
like tangled fish hooks
impossible
to pick up only one
without all the others

an’ya
Lapine, Oregon

Second Prize:

here on a knoll
in the fields of spring
I’ll lay it down . . .
and for a while be rid
of a mind that never rests

Kirsty Karkow
Waldoboro, Maine

Third Prize:

late night storm . . .
I lock the door and hope
the children are safe
in the unruly boroughs
of their dreams

Collin Barber
Marion, Arizona

What do you think of these poems?

Any thoughts, comments or disagreements would be much appreciated!

Read Anne Sexton’s literary bio and poems at PoetryFoundation.org.

Watch rare film clips of Anne Sexton reciting some poetry, including Her Kind, and excerpts from home movies.

The theme explored in the poem reminds me of Salman Rushdie's question about the problematic nature of the concept of "home" in his famous book entitled Imaginary Homelands:

The past is a country from which we have all emigrated ...

Tanka of the Week (via Tanka News and haiku Headlines)

First Place Winner: Natalia L. Rudychev

i wish
my kisses
were the cherry petals
that stream all over you
in April wind

Second Place Winner: Marjorie Buettner

I wake
to feel your touch
entering my dreams
there you untie the canoe
and we drift under wild stars

Third Place Winner: Claudia Coutu Radmore

night blooming cereus
its soundless blossoming
lost in ours
this morning’s serenity
of spent grace

What do you think of these poems? Are they good enough?

Any thoughts, comments or disagreements would be much appreciated!