Death Tanka Poems
These Death Tanka poems are examples of Tanka poems about Death. These are the best examples of Tanka Death poems written by international poets.
final accountbefore life begins
we accrue fictional sins
so guilt always wins
lest any deem themselves free
to alter reality
dollars and distance
do not measure existence
despite persistence
constant debt all but assured
within...
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culture, death, judgement, life,
Serenity's ResurrectionsSeems it's a story
Of a girl always near-death
Through every attempt,
The loveliest metaphor,
A lie even I saw through....
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character, death, hero, magic,
Death of a Cockney RebelYou played Judy Teen,
became our Top of the Pops,
strumming Spanish strings
in that epic bowler hat,
somehow breaking every code.
...
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death, music,
Death of a KingThe King lies in state.
His armour stands in the hall.
He died very young.
What vile devil killed the King?
Rats are running on the floor....
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death,
Odds and Endsbarely adult male
lacking abilities needs
aimless future trials~
driven working family
young man dies by drunk driver...
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allusion, analogy, death, drink,
RevivedMy karma was paid,
On that very night, someone
Had saved my own life,
Once and for all, for a change,
I was deemed worthy of life....
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Categories:
death, destiny, fate, god,
Nightmare
the loss of a child
defies the law of nature;
...
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child, death, horror, loss,
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adventure, allegory, allusion, blessing,
Autumn dustriot of colour
autumn leaves adorn the ground ~
there’s beauty in death
life within trees hibernates
resurrection is promised...
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autumn,
the verandaon the veranda
sounds of raindrops, twirling leaves
scurrying squirrels
gunshots in the distance boom
- deer to decimate garden ...
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animal, death,
Black LotusSanguine souls melted,
In last confessions of death
As flames of crimson,
Draped their souls in lithe petals
Of a black, gold-lined lotus....
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Categories:
angst, black love, farewell,
Jellyfishmagical sea blooms
floating jelly umbrellas
docile and deadly . . .
graceful seductions soon sting,
sea life's fatal attraction!...
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beautiful, death, nature, ocean,
Russian RuinsRepulsive rodents
Roaming razed Russian ruins
Post-nuclear war
Hollowing our heritage
Scarring our soiled Slavic state...
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death, longing, loss, patriotic,
Shaw ThingRumble of news now!
Feint response anger' a showing?
Birth death.. Some gap.?...
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anxiety, community, conflict, graduation,
Death Is No Candle BlownNot a candle blown,
Death is a lamp doused at dawn.
Soul, with light its own
That stays lit forever on,
Keeps lit the life ever on.
Flesh being...
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death,