This year for my birthday we are having fun with Hanafuda and Tarot cards. Dave Steward contributed this sound poem and I added the video so I could post it here.
To see the tanka I wrote for Dave Stewart, click here.
To see all the Hanafuda/Tarot tanka posted to date, click here.
Buckets of blood—fake
You wouldn’t harm a fly—but
Darkness fascinates
Waiting to see what’s revealed
By violent lightning flashes
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(for Dave)
This year for my birthday we are having fun with Hanafuda and Tarot cards.
To see all the Hanafuda/Tarot tanka posted to date, click here.
Your heart yellow—red
Chrysanthemum electric
Sprouts petals of light
That fade instantly to be
Replaced as fast as they fall
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(for Reuel)
This year for my birthday we are having fun with Hanafuda and Tarot cards.
Reuel Dechene’s High Priestess Reversed
To see all the Hanafuda/Tarot tanka posted to date, click here.
And where you were born
What purple flowers bloom there?
What songs do birds sing?
Mbote bolingo na nga
Nalingaka yo mingi
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(for Cutty)
This year for my birthday we are having fun with Hanafuda and Tarot cards.
To see all the Hanafuda/Tarot tanka posted to date, click here.
To read the chapbook Happy Birthday Hanafuda by Andrew Grimes Griffin just click on the link. To download a pdf, right click on the link and select “Save link as…”
In the fallen snow
Tiny birds wait in the pines
Whispering secrets
The stars as sharp as needles
Pierce the cold dark winter sky.
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(for Sonia)
This year for my birthday we are having fun with Hanafuda and Tarot cards.
To see all the Hanafuda/Tarot tanka posted to date, click here.
To read the chapbook Happy Birthday Hanafuda by Andrew Grimes Griffin just click on the link. To download a pdf, right click on the link and select “Save link as…”
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