Long Tanka Poems

( a Rensaku = linked tanka )  
      
a mother eagle      
scans horizon flying west      
to the canyon —      
two eaglets in a nest      
wait high atop a ridge      
     
outstretched wings      
ride a thermal updraft      
silent, on the hunt      
single-minded, piercing      
through the fading sunlight      
     
sweeping down      
into the canyon’s maw      
where daylight sleeps,      
we’ve set up camp, a fire      
& dine on humpback chub      
      ...

🏙
1 Haiku, 3:30pm    
 
winter, like a    
lover I've grown tired of    
who is loath to leave  
 
 
🌄  
2 Senryu, 7:05pm  
 
from my bath, standing  
at a mirror touching  
the locket he gave me  
 
 
🌃  
3 Tanka, 8:00pm

pulling back the blinds,  
my body adorned with  
opal light  
 
from a spring moon rising,  
while resting, he lies watching  
 
 
🌛🌜   
4 Tanka, 9:30pm  
  ...