EVIL WINDS BLOWINGTheir win, has its wind
Slap-blowing in our faces:
A musky-trump wind,
Blowing, blasting bigotry,
Slapping justice in the face:-
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Categories:
political, storm, wind,
Form: Tanka
Cranebeak wedged in white noise
twigs of legs snow-plant
plumage in the air
body borne invisible
muse contemplates wholesome bird...
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Categories:
bird,
Form: Tanka
Rejection"Nap," written in blue
Resting means I'm a burden
Get no rest at night
To see the depths of my soul
You might just know rejection
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Categories:
depression, loneliness, mental health,
Form: Tanka
POND QUEENPOND QUEEN
Ducks may rule the pond,
but there's a lily pad throne
where a queen frog sits.
while rock-throwing kids scare ducks,
the frog queen quietly sits there:-...
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Categories:
metaphor,
Form: Tanka
BIRDS OF A DIFFERENT FEATHERBirds Of A Different Feather
(Feather Pen...Ink. Tanka)
She's like that hen,
peacocking her bouncy tail;
proudly strutting it:
Both strutting the same purpose;
but different roosters sought:-
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Categories:
allegory,
Form: Tanka
Very SomethingHealing through drinking.
Enjoying life through smoking
Tobacco and weed.
Perhaps natives were always
Onto that very something....
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Categories:
addiction, drug, happiness, life,
Form: Tanka
GOD'S FLOWERSGOD'S FLOWERS
We're not buds of war,
we're the flowers of God,
scented with his love.
The world is God's garden.
We must fruit it with world peace:-
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Categories:
allegory,
Form: Tanka
ERUPTING WORLD WARSPandemic warring,
Human nature’s volcanic
Lava flow of hate;
Scorching love with agony:
Her world’s peace flowing away:-
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Categories:
allegory,
Form: Tanka
SAPPED ROOTED SOULSWith our soul’s valleys
watered with God’s wet spirit,
and his healing love,
be as trees of divine sap
sagely rooted in his work:-
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Categories:
analogy, encouraging, faith, god,
Form: Tanka
OF WE TOOTHPICKS AND RAKESPicking and raking,
Cleaning the political
Garden of Evil,
Know that while gardeners die,
Rooting out trash must go on:-
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Categories:
allegory, america, analogy, encouraging,
Form: Tanka
A Japanese Tanka Written in Response to Pensive Solitude on The Eve of This NightAn outcast this night,
I mournfully sigh with gloom:
but, I make war, fight!
to rebel against the doom,
and emptiness of my room.
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Categories:
depression, loneliness, lonely, longing,
Form: Tanka
GNever invited
Lost in the bottle from you
I didn't cause this
You told lies to my landlord
The neighbors warned me of you
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Categories:
addiction, bullying, death, loss,
Form: Tanka
Diamond DreamsTulips of morning
just waked from amaranth dreams,
meet glittering sun.
Dogwood rose opens redly
Pink dawn's jewel shines steady.
Beautiful flowers
respond to warmth's mute caress!
They're a dream come true
in varicolored versions
'ere dusk dreams, in beds again!
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Categories:
beautiful, color, dream, flower,
Form: Tanka
FRANCIS OF GODFRANCIS OF GOD
Spiritual fruit of God,
Reflector of loving peace,
Pontiff of justice:-
Labors of love completed,
May his spirit remain here:-
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Categories:
bereavement, christian, eulogy, love,
Form: Tanka
DOVEDA bird flew over me,
leaving a feather falling,
landing on my head:
Oh, it had to be a dove,
I’ve never felt so peaceful:-
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Categories:
allegory, analogy, bird, imagery,
Form: Tanka
Specific Types of Tanka Poems
Read wonderful tanka poetry on the following sub-topics:
art, animals, christmas, death, family, flowers, food, friendship, funny, kids, life, love, music, nature, nursery, parents, sadness, school, spring, sports, summer, war, winter
and more.
Definition | What is Tanka in Poetry?