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Premium Member What 3 wise good men and women fear
'tis the machine age when we wise, be deemed machines until three machines read our stuff, agree, and say sorry, you ain't no machine...

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Categories: tanka., computer,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member - Keep The Secret -
paths in the darkness ...

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Categories: tanka., fantasy, nature,
Form: Tanka



Premium Member juniper
time stirs incensed sparks a moon of juniper dreams amidst this wild heart aching to be cloaked in pine ~ sweet love  … brushed in warm lilac...

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Categories: tanka., deep, destiny, devotion,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Summer Reflections
through my long-stemmed glass red & white stripes, blue with stars merlot reflection muted-purple silhouette prolonged sips, flag pole on porch...

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Categories: tanka., drink, patriotic,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member A CAPITALISTIC PERSPECTIVE ON WAR: A TANKA QUINTET FLOW
Bombs begetting bombs, War mongers are safe and sound; Others being bombed: The bombing of others reaps Bloody power over them No matter who dies, Nuclear war bombing pays off; Bombs begetting bombs: Millions spent creating bombs; Trillions reaped from their bombings:- War is a business, Nuclear bombs produced and sold; Low cost drones offered:- War is for power; So is capitalism:- Just do the homework: Democracy is one thing; Power...

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Categories: tanka., allegory,
Form: Tanka



Premium Member THE ULTIMATE NATURE OF WAR
THE ULTIMATE NATURE OF WAR Sown love reaps world peace, While sown hate will reap world war: Power its sower:- Sharers of love will sow peace: Profiteers of war, sow hate:- World peace uprooted, War’s deforestation plows World devastation:- Armageddon coming: God plowing us a new day:- Be ever mindful, War is a power monger’s Child of destruction; And will be chastised by God: Its navel giver uprooted:- ...

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Categories: tanka., allegory, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member TIME TO BE LIKE BEES
TIME TO BE LIKE BEES (A Freestyle Tanka Quintet) Once feared allergy, back in 1963, gave wisdom to me: Learned from the sting of a bee; we need hiving unity:- Researching bee stings, revealed much about beings and disunity: We need hived togetherness; reaping from the unity:- Let’s get together, sowing and reaping oneness in all our...

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Categories: tanka., allegory, analogy, life, together,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member UP IN SMOKE
UP IN SMOKE whispers on the rails, a lone train fades into dusk~ memories depart, echoes of laughter linger, in the smoke, dreams drift away. ...

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Categories: tanka., 12th grade, dream, memory,
Form: Tanka
Romantic Love
refresh and fresh fruits summer breeze after sunset lovers summer nights bright neat so blue stars up there overhearty love is here...

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Categories: tanka., romantic love,
Form: Tanka
Stillness in the Rain
Whispers in the rain carry dreams the wind once held— soft as memory, they fall into open hearts, blooming where silence had grown. ...

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Categories: tanka., birthday, meaningful,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Golden Ratio in Divine Proportion
neat proposition worthy of pious ponder divine proportion what ratio is golden 1 plus root 5 over 2...

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Categories: tanka., art,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Juno
crowned queen of the gods saturn and jupiter loom large in her orbit known for her protective role mars bows to her motherly grace ...

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Categories: tanka., myth, planet,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member ANCESTRAL WISDOM
ANCESTRAL WISDOM old tree, ancient soul, witness to generations, whispers in the wind. roots connect us to the past guides us towards the future ...

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Categories: tanka., 12th grade, tree, wisdom,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Peacemaker Waits for Noble Rise
peacemaker held off, let them fight, that's what kids do. I'll back the winner, demand a truce, when it's done. peace will rise from the ashes...

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Categories: tanka., peace,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Gain No, Just Pain, Bro!
no gain without pain you gotta push on, right through to the bitter end it's just in sight, bend, bend, bend ~ moan, groan, scream ~ Oh my Hammie !...

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Categories: tanka., motivation, work,
Form: Tanka

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