This Friday 22 July is the closing date for our online Tanka Competition. Entries will be judged by well-known poet Andrew Lansdown (a master practitioner of the form), and Fremantle Press poetry editor Wendy Jenkins.
Recent entries show many of the possibilities of the form. ‘Treasure’ by Annamaria Weldon is intensely visual, a frozen moment, while ‘Old Flame’ by Rose van Son uses metaphor to evoke the passing of time and dying down of love’s first flame.
Treasure
Cupped by sand, three eggs
lustrous as black-speckled pearls.
Hooded plovers nest,
set in samphire and limestone-
treasure trove at the tideline
- Annamaria Weldon
Old Flame
all the candles lit
just a flicker now and then
the bowl tightly fits
what is left of you and me
murmurings behind closed doors
- Rose van Son
Wendy Jenkins
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