TEXAS FLOODING WARSTEXAS FLOODING WARS
(Apropos Of A Lesson Of Nature)
The flood waters came,
leaving lost lives washed away;
eyes flooded with tears:
Nature herself, warring with
collateral disaster:-
So many children
won’t be thirsty anymore;
flood waters drowned them:-
Let us thirst for quenching peace:
our human nature flooded:-
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Categories:
allegory,
Form: Tanka
RainstormsWildflowers be wild,
wet with whimsical wonder.
Relentless rainstorms
revel in naive riches
nurturing and rebellious....
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Categories:
emotions, flower, nature,
Form: Tanka
OF LIFE AND ROSESOF LIFE AND ROSES
Life is like roses,
our petals and thorns tested
daily in our lives:-
Keep bloosoming and blooming :
enduring life’s naturing:-
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Categories:
analogy, encouraging, endurance, growth,
Form: Tanka
cheat on the sweet
sometimes lovers meet
kiss and share a bite to eat
one desires sweetmeat
not dessert an extra treat
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Categories:
perspective, relationship,
Form: Tanka
BeforeAnguish and Sorrow,
Is begotten to abyss,
Light does not exist,
Mass no actuality,
Until blessed by sacred will.
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Categories:
birth, birthday, extended metaphor,
Form: Tanka
Nebulous Horizon
Mist swallows the edge—
sky and sea blur into one,
no clear path in sight.
Yet I walk where light once fell,
trusting stars behind the haze.
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Categories:
sea, sky,
Form: Tanka
In Savannahin Savannah
a shadow creeps at dusk
or stalks
presumably
a sasquatch or squirrel
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Categories:
humor,
Form: Tanka
Nothing Seems to Lastnothing seems to last
flowers weep faded petals
a faint scent lingers
once blooming in bright color
my poems have lost their appeal
emotions wither
wilted words whirl in the wind
bereft of beauty
I strive to remain rooted
hoping for droplets of love
Eileen Manassian...
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Categories:
loneliness, metaphor, muse, poetry,
Form: Tanka
The spell of chimes and jangles
want to hear from you
not with you laying it out
but in clangs and chimes
that evoke my own response ~
easier to write that way...
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Categories:
poetry, poets,
Form: Tanka
Emergency Inflatable Buoy for Smartphones
numb butterfingers
need inflatable buoys
attached to their phones
to stop the silly slip dips
to which dumb users are prone...
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Categories:
computer, people,
Form: Tanka
Chanting SpringSweet snowdrop bells ring!
The violets are coming
Days are chanting spring.
Crimson camelias call
from dreams near the garden wall.
Gold sun fields await
rich tulips of tomorrow!
Lily's never late.
Then pansies' pink faces greet
blue roses across the street.
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Categories:
beautiful, color, flower, joy,
Form: Tanka
TO BEING OF ONE ACCORDTO BEING OF ONE ACCORD
Let us not sow discord,
rather, let’s sow onederful,
oneness, onement:
Reaping divine wisdom, and
guidance, from the Holy One.
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Categories:
allegory, destiny, extended metaphor,
Form: Tanka
The Art of Letting Go
A leaf lets go mild,
moving down through brilliant shine~
no war, no regret.
Even parting has its joy,
when the weather knows its time.
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Categories:
goodbye,
Form: Tanka
Stepping Stones Standing
step stones across stream
look easy to pick and tread
some were raised upright
wanting to be idolised ~
as landfall stands for the soul...
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Categories:
river,
Form: Tanka
Is Free-Falling Flying?
Is free-fall flying
Is flying, falling graceful
under brief control
each yearn for such weightlessness
ends the same way - screech splish splat...
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Categories:
flying,
Form: Tanka
Specific Types of Tanka Poems
Read wonderful tanka poetry on the following sub-topics:
art, animals, christmas, death, family, flowers, food, friendship, funny, kids, life, love, music, nature, nursery, parents, sadness, school, spring, sports, summer, war, winter
and more.
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