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Japanese culture: poetic aesthetics, artistry, and martial arts, inspired me to write haiku and tanka

January 9, 2021

Tags: A Japanese Insight into Beauty, A Net of Fireflies, aikido, Bernard Leach, Chang Chung-Yuan, Creativity and Taoism, haiku, Harold Stewart, Jane Hirshfield, japanese aesthetics, Japanese crafts, japanese cranes, Jerry Yellin, kintsugi, kintsukuroi, Kiyo, Matsuo Bashō, nature, relationships, Robert Yellin, sensei, Soetsu Yanagi, Takumi, tanka, The Heart of Haiku, the spirit of beauty, The Unknown Craftsman, willow trees
Posted in Art, Literature, My poems, Poetry, Writing | 4 Comments »

WRITING TANKA—Preparing to Write

December 10, 2020

Tags: ars poetica, awareness, haiku+hoku=tanka, inspiration, places, writing on writing
Posted in My poems, Poetry, Writing | 2 Comments »

The playful joy of effortless creation displayed by Donna Warwick inspired this haiku turned tanka

November 29, 2019

Tags: artistic fulfilment, creating from source, creative realization, creativity, digital painting, Donna Warwick, effortless creation, fulfillment, gratitude, painting inspires poetry, Thanksgiving, thought and action, Transcendental Meditation
Posted in Art, My poems, Poetry | 1 Comment »

The temporary paradox of death in life: writing a tanka for our family pet on his passing

October 27, 2018

Tags: dealing with grief, death café, life after death, losing a pet, loss of a loved one, trying to understand the nature of death
Posted in My poems, Poetry, Writing | 5 Comments »

A tanka remembering Sali and her gift to me on the one-year anniversary of her passing

October 1, 2017

Tags: david orme-johnson, grief, Hospice Compassus, journaling, kate ross, one-year anniversary, poem, remembrance, rhoda orme-johnson, Sali, Sally Peden, tanka, writing to heal
Posted in Articles, My poems, Poetry, Sally Peden, Writing | 10 Comments »

For Us—a tanka honoring Sali and what we shared

June 30, 2017

Tags: caring for a loved one, dementia, devotion, friendship, karma, Maharishi, past lives, soulmates, spiritual transformation, true love
Posted in My poems, Poetry, Sally Peden, Writing | 14 Comments »

Growth, a spontaneous haiku/tanka @kenchawkin

April 11, 2017

Tags: growth, haiku, learning lessons, self-realization, tanka
Posted in My poems, Poetry | 2 Comments »

Tanka For Sali Upholding Her Wonderful Nature

April 5, 2015

Tags: dementia, essence, essential nature, joy, love, sweetness, tanka
Posted in My poems, Sally Peden | 6 Comments »

a new tanka: Dementia Blues

December 12, 2013

Tags: brain cell, dementia, emotion, forgetting, friendship, illness, losing, memory, relationship, tanka
Posted in My poems, Sally Peden | 15 Comments »

a writing tanka on writing tanka by ken chawkin

September 8, 2013

Tags: Fairfield Iowa, iowa usa, nature of haiku, poem writing, Poetry, tanka, write to know, Writing, writing process
Posted in My poems, Poetry, Writing | 1 Comment »