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Tanabata

Tanabata poem 2022: Who needs the moon when we’ve got the stars?

2022/07/07

Every year for the last few years, I have written a poem to mark Tanabata. Here is this year’s installment.
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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged July 2022, poem, poetry, Tanabata. Bookmark the permalink.

Are the stars out tonight? (a poem)

2021/07/07

Every year, I write a tanabata poem for July 7th…

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Tanabata poem (covid edition) (a poem)

2020/07/07

Every year for the last few years, I have written a poem to mark Tanabata. Here is this year’s installment.
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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged July 2020, poem, poetry, Tanabata. Bookmark the permalink.

7/7/16 (a poem)

2016/07/06

Posting my annual Tanabata (七夕) poem a few hours early (though it is already the 7th in Japan)…

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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged candle, July 2016, match, poem, poetry, stars, Tanabata, wish tree. Bookmark the permalink.

A wish (a poem)

2015/07/07

My Tanabata poem for this year…
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This entry was posted in Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged branch, dreams, growth, happiness, hearts, July 2015, love, poem, poetry, Tanabata, wish. Bookmark the permalink.

a Tanabata poem

2014/07/07

July 7th is Tanabata (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanabata). I wrote this poem with that in mind.
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This entry was posted in Musings, Writing and tagged anticipation, connection, July 7th, poem, poetry, separation, sunny day, Tanabata. Bookmark the permalink.
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