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as the years pass
the more I find myself
content to enjoy
the pleasure of my own
flawed company
This poem first appeared in Ribbons (Winter 2010).
Used here with the author's permission.
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Kathe L. Palka lives in Hunterdon County, New Jersey and writes in both Japanese forms and free verse. Her short tanka collection, As the Years Pass, won an eChapbook Award from Snapshot Press in 2011. In 2015, Red Moon Press published A Path of Desire, a book of tan renga written by Kathe and poet Peter Newton. Two poems from her long form collection, Miracle of the Wine (Grayson Books, 2012), were featured on The Writer’s Almanac. Kathe is a member of the Haiku Poets of the Garden State and has been involved in the presentation of haiku for their yearly April haiku sign installation at the New Jersey Botanical Garden in Ringwood, New Jersey since its inception in 2018. She has co-edited the online micro poetry journal tinywords.com together with Peter Newton since 2012. Kathe is currently at work on a manuscript in Japanese forms. Learn more about her at her Haiku Foundation web page.
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Larry Schug:
"content","pleasure", "flawed"--that's life.
Posted 02/23/2026 02:29 PM
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Tom Sharpe:
You have to get comfortable in your own skin, cause that is where you live.
Posted 02/23/2026 11:05 AM
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Joan L. Cannon:
Words of wisdom. I prefer tanka for its flexibility in acceptable subject matter. The condensation of emotion or humor or revelation is the delightful challenge of these brief forms.
Posted 02/23/2011 01:20 PM
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dianapoet:
I like this - the form and the content. I'm reading "What Remains" by Margaret Chula who writes in these forms.
Posted 02/23/2011 08:18 AM
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Carol Hauer:
I love this. It takes us a while, sometimes, to see, accept, and love our own selves.
Posted 02/23/2011 07:51 AM
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Gary Busha:
Yes! Haiku and tanka are wonderful but don't be fooled by brevity and what seems simplicity. It takes skill to write and gives pleasure to read these forms.
Posted 02/23/2011 05:56 AM
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