
fallen trees –
a deeper soul can see
angels in shadows
scatter seeds of love
for healing and renewal
© Xenia Tran

We are deeply honoured and delighted that an earlier tanka I wrote for Tanka Thursday, Soft and Forgiving, has been included in Self-Portrait, Tanka Society of America 2021 Members’ Anthology. A warm-hearted thank you to Michael H Lester for selecting my poem and putting this beautiful edition together and to Eve Castle, for providing the initial inspiration for the poem with her lovely prompt.

Wishing you all a blessed Thursday and a peaceful rest of the week,
with love from Eivor, Pearl and Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Tanka Thursday: Angel
Word of the Day Challenge: Magnifying
Very poignant for today x
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Thank you kindly dear Ruth 💛🙏 xxx
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Absolutely love the sentiment in your poem, beautiful!
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Pragalbha 💗🙏 xxx
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You are very welcome _()_
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A beautiful tanka, Xenia 💚 Wishing you a peaceful weekend and much love to you all 💕🐕🤗xxx
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Cathy 💚 A peaceful weekend to you too and much love back from our house to yours 🤗💕🐕 xxx
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Thank you 💕🐕🤗xxx
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Beautiful
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Thank you kindly dear Bella 💜 xxx
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Beautiful 💕
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Thank you kindly dear friends 💕🐕 xxx
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Congrats, congrats! What a beautiful cover!
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Laurie 💜 xxx
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Ah Yes Dear Xenia
Hope in Every Fallen
Tree And Leaf
to Rise Again
So Green
Coloring Our
World With Love
of FLoWeRS iNHaLinG Peace
Exhaling LoVE iN JoY oF LiGHT
Giving Sharing Caring Healing For
All With
Least Harm
Currently A Theme
Song for a New “SoNG
oF mY SoUL” True Now too
For i Do Remember Hurricane
Ivan Spreading Winds of 120 MPH
Nature’s Power 20 Hours Here in 2004
Ripping The Clothes of Nature’s Love
Off As Branches of Our Beloved Huge
Oak Tree Keeping me Grounded Then in
So Many
Years
of
Unrelenting
Stress Yes 11 Indeed
Through Fight or Flight
Through Those Last 2 Years
Only to Be Followed by 66 Months
of Living HeLL ON EartH For A 17 Year-Locust
SHeLL OveRall Ride From Purgatory Through HeLL
For ReaL ON EartH
Yet The Oak Tree
My FRiEnD
Through
2004 as i continued
to Languish as A Living
Tree too Slowly Losing my
Leaves Leaving Green to Lost Spring
All That Was Left of that Tree Was Dinosaur
Bones After Ivan So The ‘Tree Funeral People’
Removed It Leaving only a Stump Increasingly
What Was Other Wise Left of my SoUL too
So A Small Twig Grew from the Stump
Katrina Wanted it Cleaned Away
Yet i Insisted to Let it go
Green And Sure
Enough
A Wider
More Diverse
Tree Births from
What Was Once Dead
Now Living Again And so
do i
And So i Am True too…
After Hurricane Comes
A Rainbow Dead Seeds Bring Spring…
Happy Weekend Dear Xenia Storms Free…
Where Spring Still Turns Green on Soils Not Red…
And
Left
Behind Love…
Love Still Breathes…:)
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Fred 💚 Nature’s restorative powers are truly amazing. It’s so beautiful your beloved oak tree is producing new shoots again and the Song of your Soul is creating new energy too 🌿 Thank you for stopping by and we wish you and Katrina a wonderful weekend too 🤗💜🌞
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All Best
BLeSSinGS
And BLiSSinGS
To You
All
Dear
Xenia
With SMiles☺️🏝💐
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Thank you dear Fred! 😊🙋♀️
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🤗 ☺️🏝
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Congratulations on another tanka published! I’m always excited to hear about this sort of thing, and you’re so deserving of this honor. 🙂 The tanka posted here is beautiful. When I saw the photos–even before I read the verse–I was drawn to the dominant shadows that resembled standing figures. I love your lines about “a deeper soul can see / angels in shadows…” Such thoughtful words… All in all, another wonderful post, Xenia. Please tell Eivor and Pearl hello for me! 🙂
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Mike and Eivor and Pearl say thank you too! 😊 The photograph with the tall shadows was one of those lovely unexpected moments when Eivor walked onto the sunny side and the poem grew from there. Wishing you a blessed weekend ahead and much love back from all of us here 🐾💛🐾
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Xenia absolutely loved the awesome sentiment in your poem. Amazing and wonderful pictures so well captured. Wishing you a lovely weekend ahead.
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Kamal and a lovely weekend to you too from all of us here 🤗💗🙏 xxx
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You are always welcome dear Xenia. Happy weekend 😊😊😊😊😊😊
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🤗💖🙏 xxx
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🙏🏻🙏🏻😊😊😊💕💕💕
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