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UK Poet Dave Whippman

Tanka

Buildings fall, streets flood:
An aerial view of distress.
Most suffering, though, has no image.
It takes its victims unseen;
Does not recede like water.

Dave Whippman is a UK poet and prose writer. He lives in the north of England.
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Poet Alan Summers

Gendai haiku

first quarter moon
dancing pinheads burst
into new angel DNA

email to Canada

The moon is in its first quarter

this Japan morning

the day after

Tanka

the long night
and longer day
even our broken moon
over the biggest wave
separates our love

Alan Summers is a Japan Times award-winning writer for haiku and renga: www.withwords.org.uk

He wrote me tonight:

“Many of my Japanese friends are safe, either home, or still walking back
home. One is even on the 20th storey of a big building because Japanese
buildings are so safe, but homes can’t compete. The wave was travelling
at 600mph.”

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Poet Tony Lewis-Jones

Tanka 11.03.11

God
be kind
to Japan this time.
May the waters recede
and our friends have peace.

Tony Lewis-Jones is a poet and editor who lives in Bristol, UK.

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