Wednesday 20 July 2011

tanka 25

i.m. Geoff Tomlinson

at your funeral
we sit all quiet in pews
waiting to begin
then suddenly — the brass band
blasting out "Hail Smiling Morn"

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 13th August 1997

Publication

2005 Anglo-Japanese Tanka Society (Internet)
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