Art Tanka Poems

I walk through the glade
colour enlightens me-
 in my mind's eye
abstractions rainbow
my persoective

The soft yellow streaked the terra cotta,shadowing the speckled sallow saffron 
a bluish...

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Silent One cool art
International poet
Lasting very tall
Elegant writes and poems
Northerly very bright star

Original kind
Nimble night so shining star
Enjoyable man


Acrostic Tanka & Senryu, in Andrea Dietrich...

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Autumnal fervor
radiates majestic art
Green, red, gold, brown blends
Magnify nature’s beauty
God* marvelously designed.

*Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

November 18, 2023
3rd...

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stains and paints a deer
after distressing the wood -
husband’s a hunter
her encounter with the wild
finds a buckshot in deer’s chest...

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Pardon for fingers
Body painting my fixed face—
Marking up a scene
Of raw phantasms that look
Like they're falling for my tears....

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Metals I adore
Shiniest gemstones galore.
Staring into store
Windows filled with those jewels,
Filled with beautiful colors....

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The one who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. Those who walk alone are likely to find themselves in places...

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Green and red apples
flowers in a ruby vase
Hues shout in stillness
and sweetest blooms, richest red
capture the laziest eye.

Vibrant explosions
in the hushed art museum
where the colors...

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A 'Dancing Machine'
Quickly getting 'Off the Wall'
       For a big 'Thriller'
        ...

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the catastrophe 
avoided…wobble…wobble
lazy chair upstart
banged the curio panel
upheaval of heavy art

3/6/2023...

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Bits of what we had
Became unstrung, life then spun
Out of my control.
Then saw goodness of your soul...
Sadly cannot find them all....

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Another writer's block hour
Seems as I'm  lost in the power
Shook up and dismayed 
Locked in the jaws even a cage
I will fight with might...

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I now have page six 
Nothing short of amazing 
I will boast loudly 
I should be rewarded with 
Eternal  blue rose gardens...

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No tanka author
Grips the reigns of emotions
Like Takuboku
I, my face so streaked with tears,
blithely read about his crabs...

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The Nabta Playa
Stonehedges of the old age
Migrants of passage
Brave pilgrims of the unknown
Lost paradigms of the blown...

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