tanka poem – Poetry 2018 https://kiwinana.blogtown.co.nz Just another Blogtown NZ site Fri, 07 Dec 2018 19:52:33 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8 Resting Octopus – Tanka Poem https://kiwinana.blogtown.co.nz/2018/11/11/resting-octopus-tanka-poem/ https://kiwinana.blogtown.co.nz/2018/11/11/resting-octopus-tanka-poem/#comments Sun, 11 Nov 2018 21:49:25 +0000 http://kiwinana.blogtown.co.nz/?p=11 Tanka with deep thoughts from within – that vision is recorded in my mind – a haiku or tanka must come from a vision, my vision was the photo below when I first glimpse it.

curled up in clamshell
totally lost while resting
careless of surrounds
the beauty of that moment
lives in my body forever

An ocellated (spotted) octopus using a clamshell as a shelter

Ocellated_octopus.

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