Tanka
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Advent: December 4 By Vincent H. Anastasi 2022 Sometimes the waiting stretches interminable and I strain to hear His piercing cry that echoes through centuries of silence
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Advent: December 3 By Vincent H. Anastasi 2022 Beneath the bustle the ebb and flow of life’s tides the modern worship of wealth and power and things my manger heart cradles peace.
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Advent: December 2 By Vincent H. Anastasi 2022(Inspired by Isaiah 29:17-27) But a little while out of the gloom and darkness the blind eyes will blaze deaf ears hear, the poor rejoice when Hope transmutes mortal flesh
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Walking home from work earlier in the week, I had an idea. Inspired by Malcom Guite’s collection of poems that we’ve used as part of our Advent meditations, I gave myself the goal to write a series of Japanese Tankas as short reflections in preparation for Christmas Day. I know it’s late in the day…
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Tonight I share the fusion of photography and poetry, of India, Japan, England, and America: a Japanese tanka dedicated to William Carlos Williams (the pediatrician) and William Wordsworth (the romantic) inspired by a photograph by Divyakant Solanki. I am sure both Williamses would see in this everyday image the profound in the common. It comes…
the deepening ground 