tangerine antho

tangerine antho
an ongoing anthology of short verse deriving from the haiku and tanka tradition
Copyright 2002 by Winfred Press

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Hedgerow
sheila windsor






i walked
over a mile
to find no-one at home
yet each way this honeysuckle
hedgerow
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text © 2002 by sheila windsor
art  © 2002 by sheila windsor

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eros                                      
a sequence 
Pamela A. Babusci 
© 2002 by Pamela A. Babusci  




your 
suffocating love 
between the sheets 
i can't get close                                      
enough 





wiping off my lipstick 
i taste your mouth... 
will you long for me tonight 
when you are as distant as 
the Milky Way? 





making                                      
a bamboo trellis 
for morning glories 
oh, indigo wind, who will 
climb my womanly vines 





with no lover tonight 
my kimono is loosened 
by the summer wind 
honeysuckle perfume 
caressing my breasts

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Image, Legends & Haiku 
Angelee Deodhar


Pale hands, short of breath dizzy no longer possible to meditate jumbled thoughts
haiku haibun haiga Boston New York Japan past present future deadlines so little
time - emergency transfusion one bottle then another slowly each ruby drop reduces
the pallor.





palm to glass
touching flamboyant blossoms
through the ambulance window





Angelee Deodhar
art & text © 2002 by Angelee Deodhar

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Pen & Ink
Merrill Ann Gonzales

art © 2002 by Merrill Ann Gonzales
                                                              
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Winter Cottage
tanbun


Unworldly wind, and dark the midnight forest.  So cold the branches click like antlers.  
Beyond that, not much to know.


in the black of nothing -
               phantom bucks
                                battle



Larry Kimmel
© 2002 by Larry Kimmel

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botanical print
Pamela A. Babusci

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Two Cinquain
Kathy Lippard Cobb  
© 2002 by Kathy Lippard Cobb




Knowing It's Over


Shadows:
We sit, watching
the day come to an end—
each knowing that we've nothing left
to say.

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Winter. . .
old men huddle
on the dock — a pungent
odor of whiskey, fish, and lost
chances.
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Haishin, Icons & Haiku
Sonia Cristina Coman










sunny day—
the shadow of a butterfly
touches my hand
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opened book—
the wind reverses
a last page
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somewhere far away
the bell is tolling softer and softer
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text  © 2002 by Sonia Cristina Coman
art   ©  2002 by Sonia Cristina Coman
photography © by Maria Coman
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Tanrenga & Art
by Carol Purington, Ellen Compton,
botanical prints by Pamela A. Babusci





walking the dirt road
house-builders hammer
the quiet

around the next bend
violets wait

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shimmering
through light and shadow
wind chime song

dissonance
of sudden rain

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a scarlet leaf
tangles in her tangled black hair . . .
the Indian-old trail  

his footsteps startle
the red-wing 

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moon dark . . .
in the driftwood ash
a spark snaps

afraid to turn away
from the story-teller's face

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the first crocus -
floating its whiteness
in a jade ashtray

windows open
to the scent of April rain

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leafless, the curve
of this walnut branch
    dusted with snow

tracks circling my house
bear-size. . .cub-size

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[tanrenga originally published in Lynx, Vol. XVI, no.1, 2001]
text © 2002 by Carol Purington & Ellen Compton
art  © 2002 by Pamela A. Babusci

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 haiga
dust and moonlight
sheila windsor








[thanks to tom windsor for technical input]


haiga © 2002 by sheila windsor

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Luna Tanka
Pamela A. Babusci 
© 2002 by Pamela A. Babusci  




lovers tonight
moon gazing hand in hand
how i envy them
my empty hands can only
brush the beams




without the moon
i could surely live
but without your love
i would be the wind
blowing in no direction

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tangerine

of segments

forms & poems

small and golden

separate and yet

so much a part of each other

[comment from ai li: copyright ai li 2002]

tangerine

ever     
            
in the process of becoming . . .
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