Tanka-7

Justice:

                Like heaven

                  In the dream

The United Nations

                  Told us

TANKA-6

<TANKA>-6

1)　Fabian!

       What will you do?

       After attaining enlightenment

       being beaten by the realities of life

       just to pursue survival

     

#    Fabian Fucan  (  http://japanese-religions.jp/publications/assets/JR33_a_Schrimpf.pdf)

       

 2) An orphan:

　  trifled with

      by those in power

      failed to express

     self-assertion

3) On the ume blossoms in bloom-:

    feeling the footsteps

 of our predecessors

 keeping to ourselves

 those who passed away for our       motherland 

    (Ume=Japanese plum)

4) In the southern land

　 upon the news of snow falling

　 the automobiles

    in a long snaking queue

  rush to the mountains

TANKA-5

1)    Before crossing the Styx

       come back

       to this life

       coming to truly know                       

       the progress of medical science 

2)   In this life

      pinwheel

      going around with the wind

      as the wind stops

      his life comes to the end

                              Kyoto (Japan)-1990

TANKA-4

1)   The 228:

       thousands of elites suffered massacre  

       without the remains

       the assailants try to wipe out the history

       the students stand up to preserve the facts of the                   history

       * The 228 Incident: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/228_Incident                                 

2)   Look at

      the road I have walked

      on the cloud

      as I have gone

      nothing remain

                           Nagasaki(Japan)-1995

TANKA-3

 1)  A dictator’s

  fraud and deception

      burst forth at last

      holding back their tears

      people could not weep with grief

  

 2) Dreaming

     to be held by the handsome man

 in his arms

 voted on paper for him

 only to become unemployed

 In Nagasaki (Japan)-1995

                 

TANKA-2

4 Tankas published in “The Tanka                        journal”No:45(2014-10-01)

１） Someday-

I believe

I shall awake again

I am now leaving

My sons, daughters, grandsons and                     granddaughters

２） Formosa-

Nero enjoys the arena in Taipei

fighters and wild beasts

students and police

sunflowers and mafias

３）Death is near

　　feeling it certainly

       and realizing

       all things actually have nothing to do

       with me in reality

　

４）A flower of camelia

       fell-

       how will the tomorrow of Formosa be?

       the people are ignorant

       only the youth are awake

TANKA-(0001)

1.  Yah! It’s you,

we met yesterday?

            isn’t it so

            you childhood friend

            got Alzheimer’s

2.  Dementia,

yet,

you remember me,

until the death

of you or me

3.  The unknown love

     would you like

to marry a nuclear plant?                          

it will never end

merely with a divorce

4.  With the help of a cane

chasing the setting sun

in the twilight of one’s life,

driving motorbike recklessly

chased you yesterday

5.  In recent days,

one has gone

another went away too

having perceived this world

I am going to set off on my journey too    

6.  Winter night,

sleeping on the screen

are the characters I am viewing

me nodded off

in my seat too     

7.  Death to be a patriot                                      

be alive to be a politician

the way of the world,

born to this world

only have to live

8.  Seasons are out of order

cherry and plum flowers

blossom side by side

behind the bright-color

hiding a piece of loneliness

9.  The love is true

yet, it may disappear,

the sensual feeling

is true certainly

but go away leaving not a trace

10.  Though the gift of

the nature

the food and sex are,

learn the morality

behave humanly