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Earth's Vandals

...We are the vandals
Desires create our misery
Breaking in pieces
Earth now a detention cell
Nature dressed in plastic sheets

31.05.2021
Sponsor: M.L.Kiser
Contest: Tanka Contest...

Sweet Honeyed Fluid

... 
the hummingbirds came
to drink the honeyed fluid
drinking it deeply
now my heart weeps at their death
honey is deadly for birds

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May 29, 2021


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Alabaster Rhasodies

...alabaster Rhapsodies

alabaster moon
 skips across midnight waters
  trails silver ribbons
singing wind song harmonies
 with two loons in rhapsodies


5-28-21
Contest: Tanka
Sponsor: M. L....

The Heart

...in a vital heart
           love and hate just conversate
                about life and death
           each new sunset and sunrise 
              as lungs inhale and exhale

           


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Engraved

...I gave you my heart
and my infatuation
to ever entwine . . . 
I leave you my devotion 
at your stone cold tomb, engraved.

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July 9, 2018


Poetry/Tanka/Engraved
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One Look

...one look and i knew
the attraction was fatal
infatuation
would grow into devotion
and i’d never find a cure
 


AP: 3rd place 2022

Submitted on May 19, 2021 for contest TANKA sponsored by ...

Baptize

...Moonlight passage leads
to river of devotion
bare feet gather here
in waves of fluid motion
holy infatuation.


For Contest : Tanka
Date: 7-8-18...

A Wilted Rose

...
I took the bus mom,
h o l d i n g  a bright rose for you;
clutched  TIGHT in my hand . . . 
    I  b r u s h  brittle leaves away,
       and lay down my  w i l t e d  ROSE.

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Contest - Tanka: Book of Love -

...flights break down borders
leaving, returning
sometimes we become exiles

writers break physical bounds
find old and new compatriots...

Lonely

...fog embraces me
with infinite tenderness
rain falls in my heart
the soul pulls the mantle close
life can be a soft grey sleep

4/8/2017
For contest: Tanka
sponsored by Rick Parise...

Cutting Tongues

...Cutting tongues tear hearts
                                      O that we could pour honey 
                                            Into ruthless hearts
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Accomplishment

...
an accomplishment

feeds the soul with the rich fruits

of its endeavor

but how soon emptiness gnaws

when only praise is devoured


January 18, 2016


~3rd Place~
Contest: Tanka...

Tanka 3

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Tanka 3
    

children so carefree
laugh while sand castles
topple in the sea…

shattered dreams may bring
teardrops in maturity


© Sandra M. Haight 2015 
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Old and Lonely

...through venetian blinds
slanting beams of light peep in
where she sits alone
reminiscing in silence 
hoping that the bell would ring

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25th March, 2015
Conte...

Sammy

...everyone said
he was too small
for a good watch dog....

why did he leave
such a big hole in our hearts?







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3/24/15 
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