When moon, earth and sun
Are in perfect alignment
The new moon reveals
Through the darkness of the night
A constellation of stars
With this tanka, I am linking up with Frank J. Tassone’s Haikai Challenge #135, for which the topic is “new moon”. I honestly had forgotten altogether about the astronomical meaning of the new moon until I read Frank’s post.
A Multitude of Musings 
Beautiful Astrid
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Thanks. ☺️
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Are you sure you haven’t written tanka before? This one is brilliant! Bravo!
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Well thanks so much. 🙂 I wrote exactly one tanka before.
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Bravo! 🙂
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Reblogged this on Frank J. Tassone and commented:
#Haiku Happenings #8: Astrid’s latest #tanka for my current #haikai challenge!
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That was super nice!
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Thanks so much. ☺️
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beautiful !!!! alsooooo is “haikai” the plural of haiku ?????? 🙂 xxx Anne
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I have no idea honestly, but I guess so. Thanks for the compliment.
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Nicely done.
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Very well done. Thanks for posting it.
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Thanks.
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