Long Contest tanka Poems

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Life - Team Contest - Tanka and Quatern

Poem 1

                                          Her heart stirred, she smiled
                                          looking at the face she loved.
                                          His eyes mirrored hope
                                          remembering their lost love
                                          crushed by fate, re-awakened 


                                          Penned on 26/08/2013 using
                                          Form :  Tanka  by
                                          Wayland Bunch and Seren Roberts
                                          Contest :   Team Work

Poem 2

 Where is the light that lived within,
 Why has the flame of doubt appeared.
 The trees bend slightly in the wind
 Towards darkness, now have you veered.

 Focus on the things dear to you,
 Where is the light that lived within.
 Your day will come before it's through,
 You that have, not died, with sin.

 Deep in your soul, you seek therein
 The pleasures, that should not have been. 
 Where is the light that lived within.
 Questions of how this came and when

 How long have you abandoned life
 What have you done, where have you been,
 Will you choose to remain in strife
 Where is the light, that lived within.

                                                 Penned on 26/08/2013  
                                                 Form: Quatern by
                                                 Seren Roberts and Wayland Bunch for
                                                 Contest: Team Work
Form: Tanka


Premium Member 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 sing you song last night
or gave you right back sweet hugs

now I sing my song
but ice cream melts on its cone
what else will I do
to win back the love from  you
and make me smile and heart grows

plead down so deeply
asking you not to leave me
I am so sorry
this is the best melody
be sung in my poetry

I hope you can hear
song being played in G-Clef
lonely but lovely 
Tanka Song with love I sing
hoping to ease  all our pains




Written: Oct. 7, 2012


Second Place Winner
Contest: Tanka-Sad Song
Judged: 10/21/2012
Poet Sponsor: My Greatest Poet, Poet-Destroyer

Fourth Place Winner
Contest: Tanka me this, tanka me that, tanka me anypoem you want...
Judged: 10/23/2012
Poet Sponsor: SKAT
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Form: Tanka

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