Long Tankas Poems

You’ve walked those streets a thousand times and still
                      You end up here. Regret...

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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 fullstops did I leave behind
dash-bridges I hopped over
and question marks...

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Why do I write? What do I write? Who am I when I do it?
Questions that would be answered differently every day,
As I never wake up the same person I was yesterday.
Every poem I write...

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

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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 read!
Ya'know, every word has the power
to change the course of...

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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 write a letter to GOD
on HIS holy THRONE
in HIS great...

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Why do you....?
(Poetic Form :: Somonka)

Why do you avoid
when I talk on commitment?
Is it a good sign
or a sign you don't see some
longer-term future with me?

If you think of me
seriously you will feel
its reasonable
desire to...

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Tidal connection,
wild flowers woo a Clownfish;
Anemone bond,
give in give up a little;
Flourish and flow together.

Seeds of ambrosia,
birds fight over leftovers;
Mammals with munchies
pass around shareable plates;
It’s never polite to gorge.

Dancing Bryony 
playing both sides of the...

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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 whole of the human race...
in the right hands?

SAFETY NET

Those that...

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An aliveness announcing angels,
Beyond beautiful bliss,
Clarifying clearly 
Disastrously dynamic diminished-hexaverses,
Eagerly, enthusiastically
Finding fanatical futuristic free-verse 
Gyrations guzzling
Haphazardly, happy haiku
Illustrating Images
Jubilantly jiving, juicy
Kindred kindness
Luxuriously languishing
Mystically, magically, memorably
Nimble notations 
Opulently 
Persuasively, poetically
Quirkily, 
Relishing Rhymes.
Succulent, sassy, sensuous
Tangerine Tango-like tankas,
Understandably...

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Sonnets, epics, narratives, blank verses...
All have their meter, music, and rhythm sure;
Haikus, senryu, tankas, lymericks...
What style is great? Who, ever, can measure?

I might say my story in a sonnet,
You might illustrate it through an epic;
Any...

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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 blue
Yours glimmering by the moon
Is “Venus”…still true...
Holding your heart, as...

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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 space and time
and the wide expanse
of the Milky Way, a...

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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 a "perfect" bouquet:
but her rich pigment
is a rare, precious paint...

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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, God’s good that way.
my heart palpitates
in caffeinated language.

the poetic muse
with...

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The Scarlett Brothers were in the ether riding their fancy birds.
They dotted the landscape with their poetic musical words.
Throwing out adjectives, idioms and a colorful adverb.
Some jealous ones were saying they were all kinds of...

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