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Tanka Poems | Tanka Examples

Premium Member TEXAS FLOODING WARS
TEXAS 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
Premium Member Rainstorms
Wildflowers 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



Premium Member OF LIFE AND ROSES
OF 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
Premium Member 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
Before
Anguish 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
Premium Member In Savannah
in Savannah a shadow creeps at dusk or stalks presumably a sasquatch or squirrel ...

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Categories: humor,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Nothing Seems to Last
nothing 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member Chanting Spring
Sweet 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
Premium Member TO BEING OF ONE ACCORD
TO 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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

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