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War Tanka Poems

These War Tanka poems are examples of Tanka poems about War. These are the best examples of Tanka War poems written by international poets.

Constantine and the fiery sign
A solar halo
Sol Invictus blistering 
Or the cross blazing
Burning for roman bloodshed 
Who in truth was Cain scheming 
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Categories: fire, light, miracle, sun,

Premium Member - New Year 2024 -
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Categories: new year, war, winter,
Premium Member Why Are We Here
so, why are we here? 
    this existential question,
         enduring, complex.
the answer? LOVE. without...

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Categories: god, humanity, life, love,
Russian Ruins
Repulsive rodents 
Roaming razed Russian ruins 
Post-nuclear war 
Hollowing our heritage 
Scarring our soiled Slavic state...

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Categories: death, longing, loss, patriotic,
A Presage
The scorching sunbeams
Envelop this atmosphere
In no time, for sure,
As if Nature is about
To blow her bugle of war....

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Categories: allegory, anger, nature, pollution,

Premium Member Dunkirk
Epitome bounds
useless waste sacrifices
will we ever learn?
our future movers, shakers
laid to a restless unknown...

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Categories: age, america, betrayal, death,
Premium Member Rotate Consciousness
forgive all evil 
             go on turn the other cheek
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Categories: humanity, trust, war,
Premium Member Childhood Nostalgia
When I was a child,
I went picking blueberries,
I was perhaps three.
My mom and two sisters were
all the family I knew.

I recall when mom
taught me to...

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Categories: adventure, childhood, emotions, feelings,
Premium Member Fallout From Satan Ii
brilliant flash eyes blind 
          split firmament nuclear blast 
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Categories: allusion, truth, war,
Premium Member Vicious Circle
to be immortal
strange wish for the human race
history repeats
lessons misplaced by culture
still---war supersedes logic

© Harry J Horsman 2022...

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Categories: angst, time,
A Child Smile Boosting War Will
Death terror stood still,
Looked askance warring evil,
From a pile of ruin
Amidst war’s terrible scene,
A child’s smile when lifted will.
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Tanka |05.03.2022| war...

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Categories: war,
Spirit Lives Amidst Death
Their pride was wounded,
And the win turned pyrrhic red,
Felt nigh defeated
When they saw some hands wave flags
O from a pile of dead rags.
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Tanka |04.03.2022|...

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Categories: pride, war,
Premium Member The Strong Belief of Senator Hiram Warren Johnson
Johnson believed that
war’s proponents use falsehood
to garner support . . .
this wise man died the same day
the atomic bomb got dropped


April 5, 2022
For Sotto Poet's...

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Categories: war,
Premium Member Spartans Bridge
The hammer rises
The sickle moves to mow down…
Ukraine Europe’s shield
The USSR reborn
Never did disintegrate.

© Harry J Horsman 2022...

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Categories: war,
Transmutation
Weapons of war launch,
Stirred up anger and violence,
Unyielding forces,
Relentless arbitration,
Perpetual peace envisaged.



March 5, 2022....

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Categories: anger, hate, peace, violence,

Book: Shattered Sighs