Category: Unplugged

Patriotism

Bayfront park, Miami

Pride for the nation

fluttering, soon decaying

print and piece of cloth

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Photo: Bayfront Park, Miami

Wavering

Building in Pasadena, California

With bells and whistles

trials and tribulations

unsettled as beach

ups and downs, and sideways too

life, wavering pendulum

Contemplate

Poetess, Umlauf Sculpture Garden, Austin, Texas

Silent, unspeaking

creating, destroying worlds

with power of words

a woman, the poetess

in mindful rumination

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Photo: Umlauf Sculpture garden and Museum, Austin, Texas.

Sculpture: Poetess, 1956, cast stone. The sculpture pays homage to Charles’ wife, Angeline Allen Umlauf, who was an art student in Chicago before becoming a poetess. Representing poetic inspiration, the sculpture also refers to Angeline who played a part in creating the Sculpture Garden.

Unperturbed

Waterfall in Zilker Botanical Garden, Austin, Texas
Zilker Botanical Garden, Austin, Texas

Whetstone or wet stone

clear water knows no bias

be water, my friend

City of many things

Made for the people

city of luck, lustre, love

made by the people

a city of muck and mire

so real and still so fine

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This is my first time trying Tanka, a work of 5 lines following the 5-7-5-7-7 syllables format. What do you think?

Photo: JFK airport