Best Tankas Poems

Being bipolar
is like a Rose whose bloom is 
missing some petals: 
but her color is deeper 
than all the other roses.

She may never be
part of...

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A ripple in time,
we are here for a moment
like fleeting vapors
in this vast, great universe--
members of a divine God.

Into the night sky
I gaze, awed by...

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just in few moments
as the dusk obscures the sky
 lids cover my eyes
 my mind begins to reckon
the things I’ve done the whole day

a flurry...

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Like a Hungry Bear
I approach the Honey Jar
Slurping the Sweetness
Pearls of sticky glue dripping
Fast I Lick my lustful lips


Now the jar's empty
I Scoop the Delicious...

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“Swinging on A Star”-1

Oh “Bethlehem Star” 
Bright multi-faceted points
Still shimmer from far
Above my old aching joints
Reminding me of His love.

deborah burch©
07/22/2012

“Swinging On A Star”-2

Diamonds on...

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Before my eyes blink
In rays of a waking day
I can see you smile
As my arms gently embrace
Another night spent with you.

My lips can still taste
The...

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out my glass window
sways the silenced sunflower
facing herbs of gold
and silver-winged butterflies
glazed in honeysuckle hope

But in this darkness 
I knit lyrical tankas;
Ink that unchains gate
to...

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Thank you to the PoetrySoup community,
for being really good friends to me...
Thank you for for comments and collaborations,
And for posting awesome poems for all to...

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quiet Sunday morn,
up at my usual time —
it’s one hour early.
grandson and husband sleeping
i read and write in silence.

i’ve hardly looked up —
no hesitation breathing.
yes,...

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Somewhere between
vowels and consonants
you disappeared

Although I looked for you
beneath apostrophes
semicolons and quotation marks,

Really
"where are you love" I groaned 
"I'm here, expecting you" I moaned

Commas and...

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You’ve walked those streets a thousand times and still
                ...

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I weave rhapsodies   |  words dance before you
     Enshrining words on paper  |  obelisks of enlightenment
   ...

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Senryu and Tankas

ANSWER MY QUESTION

Answer my question
while we agree to differ,
as long as people
realize brains are not equal
a solution to be found?

MANIPULATION

A mind to control
the...

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Bag of tricks contest sponsored by Linda-Marie
2 tankas 5/7/5/7/7
 
Concealer 
by Doris Culverhouse

Concealer covers
Restless nights, wrinkles and age
Spackle for the face
My bag of tricks will...

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Some birds flew through air
making a clean hollow path
the sun shifts away
soapy spongy white clouds
wash clear the blue faced bright sky

This is the best time
to...

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