Simply Haiku - July 2003, Volume 1, Number 2

Volume 1, Number 2, August 2003

Pamela A. Babusci

Pamela A. Babusci has been writing tanka for the past ten years. Her tanka has been published in Japan, England, Australia, New Zealand, Canada & the USA. She has won International Tanka Splendor Awards in 1995- 1999; 2001-2002 & won First Place in The Yellow Moon Tanka Contest 2002 from Australia. Writing tanka has become an integral part of her life & she aspires to write at least one to five tanka on a daily basis. She hopes that by reading her tanka, you might also become impassioned to write some.

dark clouds
& my long hair
the same color~
even, after it rains
i breathe in melancholy

the knife slips so easily
into the fresh mango~
trying to remember
why i hate him
so much

skimming
the pond's surface
a dragonflys' wings~
you never touch me
anymore

beneath the weight
of his body or next to
a stand of pines
i am quite small
& yet & yet...

if i come to you
naked or fully clothed
will you share a piece
of your heart with me?
i think not, it is too thin