Tanka Journal poet

Robert Penven

3 poems in Issue 1

In their own words

A former United States Marine, having served from 1961 to 1966. Retired from the New Jersey State Police after twenty-six years service. Published poems include two works which can be read at Cowboy Poetry Press, October 2012, 4th week, and a poem published by the Atlantic County Community College of NJ in 1976. I am currently working on a fiction story with a promise of publication. I have been writing stories and poems since elementary school in the 1950s, but didn't seek publication, only friendly recognition.

screaming winds and rainshake the fragile window glasswe hook the shutterswaiting for the sky to crashthen silence brings the rainbow

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she sweeps the waterraising her hand to the sundrops glisten like goldtears now falling from her eyestell us life's currents run deep

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with loves tendernessa hand touches a womanthe noble writercreator of prose and versenow holds a cherry blossom

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