Category Archives: an’ya

Daily Haiku: Aug. 25, 2022

Posted on August 24, 2022 by Charlotte Digregorio
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Tanka: an’ya (USA)

Posted on June 20, 2022 by Charlotte Digregorio

These three tanka are reprinted with permission from an’ya’s  book, “Tanka Tree Rings,” published in 2014.   she’s not far away whenever I can hear my wind chime . . . it blows in the same breeze that tangles her … Continue reading →

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Special: Tanka by an’ya

Posted on June 17, 2022 by Charlotte Digregorio

come to me if only on these nights of dreaming for without you will be no chapters and verses by an’ya (USA) Winner BHS Haiku Awards (Tanka Section), 2021   unattended among toxic weeds in a boneyard only forgotten souls— … Continue reading →

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Daily Haiku: Oct. 17, 2021

Posted on October 16, 2021 by Charlotte Digregorio

red sunrise a taste of the campfire still in his beard       by an’ya (USA) Frogpond, Vol. 34, No. 2, Spring/Summer 2011

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3 Tanka by an’ya

Posted on September 6, 2021 by Charlotte Digregorio

3 Tanka by an’ya   old memories like tangled fish hooks impossible to pick up only one without all the others   First Place 2008 Tanka Society of America International Contest       that final spring we were together … Continue reading →

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Tanka Sequence by an’ya

Posted on August 7, 2021 by Charlotte Digregorio

beachcombing my mother always said housework will wait– but treasures at low tide are too soon swept away     it’s where we built  the palaces of my youth each drip castle shaped by supple fingers the ones that fail … Continue reading →

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Tanka by an’ya

Posted on December 31, 2020 by Charlotte Digregorio

Tanka       nowadays i measure my life in sunsets that lacquer the sea with transient light     by an’ya (USA)

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Daily Haiku: Oct. 14, 2020

Posted on October 13, 2020 by Charlotte Digregorio

senryu bag lady threading holiday tinsel through her cart by an’ya (USA) Frogpond, Vol. 43:3, Fall 2020

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Daily Haiku: Jan. 4, 2018

Posted on January 3, 2018 by Charlotte Digregorio

blood moon cuckoo’s voice in the back of his throat by an’ya Haiku for a Moonless Night, Vol. 1, 2004  

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Daily Haiku: June 10, 2016

Posted on June 10, 2016 by Charlotte Digregorio

first spring wash . . . colours from the sundog bleed through a cloud by an’ya The Heron’s Nest, III:5, 2001

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