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Life - Team Contest - Tanka and Quatern

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Categories: contest tanka, life,
Form: Tanka

Life - Team Contest - Tanka and Quatern

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Categories: contest tanka, love,
Form: Tanka

My Love Song In Tankas

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 it was
missing the sun in your eyes
my heart in regrets
didn’t...

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Categories: contest tanka, dedication, forgiveness, heart, hope, love, me, music,
Form: Tanka

A Forest Child

tree seen in forest
is one of many thousands
showing its branches
now to me, a forest child:
one needing Christ's redemption


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The reason I like this tanka is because 
of the pause for thought encouraged by
the phrase "a forest...

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Categories: contest tanka, child, spiritual, tree,
Form: Tanka

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...

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Categories: contest tanka, grief,
Form: Tanka

In the Chilly Morn

 
there is a chirping
in the leafless frozen woods,
I hold out my hand
and cold icy feathers land-
there is both a fear and awe.

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March 18, 2015


Poetry/Tanka/in the chilly morn
Copyright Protected, ID 03-655-072-18
All Rights Reserved, 2015, Constance...

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Categories: contest tanka, bird, snow, winter,
Form: Tanka

Cutting Tongues

Cutting tongues tear hearts
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Categories: contest tanka, heart,
Form: Tanka

On a Wedding Day

Walking down the aisle
While sweet music softly plays
Feels like on the clouds
With my pure white wedding gown 
And my hands with fresh bouquet

We take solemn vow
On sunny or stormy days
Whatever  happens
Together without a fear
We...

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Categories: contest tanka, happiness, love,
Form: Tanka

Lament For the Dead

Lament for the Dead

buried deep beneath
Twin Towers’ bloodstained rubbles
my murdered loved one

a heartbroken heaven wept 
trapping joy in a time warp…




In memory of Alva Sanchez who was killed on September 11, 2001, during the terrorist...

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Categories: contest tanka, bereavement, death of a friend, grief, sorrow,
Form: Tanka