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Spock Got Dog Named Grock
Spock got rescued dog He named it Elton Grock 4 It ate the homework Of every person on earth ~ Then made stuff up - Babel Blurb...
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John Anderson
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tanka.,
computer,
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Tanka
core within seed in core of apple
orchard in garden yields bounteous ripe apples, stem cell in seed is a little bit of nothing - willing self to be fulfilled...
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John Anderson
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devotion,
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Tanka
DESPAIR NOT
DESPAIR NOT Root not in despair, be in the reaping of God’s fruits of healing grace: Glorified in your progress, continue plowing onward:- ...
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Millard Lowe
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tanka.,
cheer up, confidence, encouraging,
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Tanka
TEXAS FLOODING WARS
TEXAS FLOODING WARS (Apropos Of A Lesson Of Nature) The flood waters came, leaving lost lives washed away; eyes flooded with tears: Nature herself, warring with collateral disaster:- So many children won’t be thirsty anymore; flood waters drowned them:- Let us thirst for quenching peace: our human nature flooded:- ...
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Millard Lowe
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tanka.,
allegory,
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Tanka
Rainstorms
Wildflowers be wild, wet with whimsical wonder. Relentless rainstorms revel in naive riches nurturing and rebellious....
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Melani Udaeta
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emotions, flower, nature,
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Tanka
OF LIFE AND ROSES
OF LIFE AND ROSES Life is like roses, our petals and thorns tested daily in our lives:- Keep bloosoming and blooming : enduring life’s naturing:- ...
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Millard Lowe
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tanka.,
analogy, encouraging, endurance, growth,
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Tanka
cheat on the sweet
sometimes lovers meet kiss and share a bite to eat one desires sweetmeat not dessert an extra treat ...
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David Kavanagh
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perspective, relationship,
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Before
Anguish and Sorrow, Is begotten to abyss, Light does not exist, Mass no actuality, Until blessed by sacred will. ...
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Dan Cross
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tanka.,
birth, birthday, extended metaphor,
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Tanka
Nebulous Horizon
Mist swallows the edge~ sky and sea blur into one, no clear path in sight. Yet I walk where light once fell, trusting stars behind the haze. ...
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Bernard F. Asuncion
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tanka.,
sea, sky,
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In Savannah
in Savannah a shadow creeps at dusk or stalks presumably a sasquatch or squirrel ...
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Kim Rodrigues
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tanka.,
humor,
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Tanka
Nothing Seems to Last
nothing seems to last flowers weep faded petals a faint scent lingers once blooming in bright color my poems have lost their appeal emotions wither wilted words whirl in the wind bereft of beauty I strive to remain rooted hoping for droplets of love Eileen Manassian...
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Eileen Manassian
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tanka.,
loneliness, metaphor, muse, poetry,
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Tanka
The spell of chimes and jangles
want to hear from you not with you laying it out but in clangs and chimes that evoke my own response ~ easier to write that way...
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John Anderson
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tanka.,
poetry, poets,
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Tanka
Emergency Inflatable Buoy for Smartphones
numb butterfingers need inflatable buoys attached to their phones to stop the silly slip dips to which dumb users are prone...
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John Anderson
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computer, people,
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Tanka
Chanting Spring
Sweet snowdrop bells ring! The violets are coming Days are chanting spring. Crimson camelias call from dreams near the garden wall. Gold sun fields await rich tulips of tomorrow! Lily's never late. Then pansies' pink faces greet blue roses across the street. ...
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Evelyn Judy Buehler
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tanka.,
beautiful, color, flower, joy,
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Tanka
TO BEING OF ONE ACCORD
TO BEING OF ONE ACCORD Let us not sow discord, rather, let’s sow onederful, oneness, onement: Reaping divine wisdom, and guidance, from the Holy One. ...
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Millard Lowe
Categories:
tanka.,
allegory, destiny, extended metaphor,
Form:
Tanka
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