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For this month, I'm picking a tanka from Feb. 27th verse in Today's Tanka in Kevin's Home,
introduced by Mamico (English haiku author last fall).
The author, American Kevin is teaching English in Japan, creating his web site
in Japanes.
I smiled with sympathy at his small mistakes of Japanese,
imagining my own similar misses in my English pages.
The original verse was in February, but this tanka made me recall the hazy
sky
in blossomy season of my childhood after WW2.
When coming back from a fresh school day,
an empty home was there with no family members, books and toys;
so the only thing I could do was to go out again.
I was hungry in the vast sky and felt the time extending infinitely.
I flew in the sky with my imaginary wings...
English
verse by Kevin:
: flower (花) 
: grass (草) {
preposition, 
verb symbol}: to show the following phrase works as a verb, modifying
the front word or predicate of the sentence {
{41( move),{24,31}}: flexible like a rubber (柔軟／弾力のある), 
line }: elastic/rubber band (ゴムひも) {
(hieroglyph type) shot/shooting (射), 
tool (道具)}: gun/shooting tool (射る道具)
: (elastic) slingshot (パチンコ) {
touch (surface-related), 
violent)}: beat (打): knock/beat with the
slingshot (used by the subject of the
sentence) (パチンコで撃つ)
: to indicate an accusative case of a verb, and that is influenced
by the action of the subject. {{
wings (by the total shape), 
relation,
existence}: angel (天使): preposition
(前置符) {
nature, 
space}:
sky (空)
: the indicator
of the subject of the sentence (続く語が主語だと示す) {
child {wonder, life}, 
'male' in this case}: boy (少年)
gd (grammatical notation): To form a verb, meaning that (the
subject) become(s) in the situation
and
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move,
wave}: shaking (ゆれ、震え),
: shake (vi) (震える)
: (conjunction) and (接続符、そして) {
deny,
sound}:
silent (無音) {
face,
open}: laughing,
: laugh (vi.) (笑う) {
heading direction,
} : to, for～へ（の） {
the status position, 
in}: (one)self, my (our) own (自身)