Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,
It has been a while that I posted in here, because of several reasons, ofcourse one of them was Covid, but Covid is not the thing to talk about here.
Today I love to tell you a little bit more about Jane Reichhold (1937-2016), maybe you know her, maybe not. Jane Reichhold was a renown haiku poetess, and is still renown I hope, but she was also a gifted Tanka poetess. Jane was renown for her beautiful haiku, but her Tanka are gorgeous too.
For this Tanka Splendotr episode I have chosen a beautiful Tanka by Jane Reichhold to inspire you:
too old for new love
the moon rises each night
as I remember
the backseats of strange cars
it’s helpful light afterwards
© Jane Reichhold
What a beautiful Tanka, I really love this one. I used it on my blog once. By the way you can find the complete blog with this Tanka at: https://chevrefeuillescarpediem.blogspot.com/2016/10/carpe-diem-universal-jane-2-moon-rises.html
The goal of Tanka Splendor is to create a new Tanka (or Haiku, or other Japanese poetry form) inspired on the given Tanka. You can add your submission to the linking widget below (It’s hidden in the below Logo of our Carpe Diem Haiku Kai.