mushrooming loam
amber and red daub the sludge
with water and glaze.
stirred by the whispering breeze
sharing their stealthy karma
written: February 18, 2022
A Brian Strand Tanka Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Brian Strand
cranky and bearish
cantankerous attitude
she spends days alone
ornery and waspish
rantankerous daily
she has her own ways
prickly and grouchy
she yells sat tv people
her only friends
A dance so cantankerous
The one that is not on earth
Happens every day in a forest
Not far from land of chaos
It is dance with a partner
His tail so longer and thorny
The teeth never knows brush
And the legs home of fleas
Crescendo or diminuendo
This witty partner wriggles
With the wet mouth open
I fear for virus infection
And comes the foot work
Clumsily my feet he steps on
His tail slaps my open body
School pupil victim always
The audience my savior
Watches from secure hilltops
With no one to save me here
The ugly dance is everlasting
Grouchy
broody, moody
dope with venom entailed.
Drain the cantankerous bile pile.
Cheer Up!
Last week my computer was on the fritz.
The confounded thing was givin' me fits!
Trouble was a sick modem.
They jes' won't work without 'em!
Life sans a computer is jes' the pits!
Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
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