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Art Tanka Poems

These Art Tanka poems are examples of Tanka poems about Art. These are the best examples of Tanka Art poems written by international poets.

Thy art of hitting heart sans dart

Bewitching Beauty,
Whence hast come this unique skill--
Shooting darts at will--
Thy skill O to hit man’s heart
By merit, nary a dart!    
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Translation (Tanka)

Categories: beauty, heart,

The Art of Letting Go


A leaf lets go mild,
moving down through brilliant shine~
no war, no regret.
Even parting has its joy,
when the weather knows its time.

Categories: goodbye,

Golden Ratio in Divine Proportion

neat proposition
worthy of pious ponder
divine proportion
what ratio is golden
1 plus root 5 over 2

Categories: art,

Tart

You broken my heart
Before we could even start.
You seen my feelings
As objects, pieces of art.
Your choice of words are so tart.

Categories: break up, heartbreak, heartbroken,

The Story of My Life

It just passes by
It's like a leaf in the wind
How I shake like it
At the thought of it ending
The time of my life I spend

Categories: anxiety, appreciation, art, life,

Journal Of Journey

Dates and their import
I was raised to revere them
they are true benchmarks 
of  a mineral rich load
littered with capsules of time

Categories: art, character, deep, devotion,

My First Ever Poem

Down a grassy lane,
I trudged beneath pale blue skies,
a rambling spirit,
vivid scenic hues a spur,
to a literary verse

Images abound,
for me to seize and savour,
in a

Categories: art, birth, creation, deep,

How My First Poem Was Born

By the age of nine
my poetic urge had sprung
to be part of me-
as new Spring was on its way
with the magic of my pen.

My poetic

Categories: child, poetry,

How My First Poem Was Born

Toddler singing songs
Almost all the words are wrong
Fierce spirit so strong
At that moment born poet
Creating words notes and hopes

Categories: appreciation, art,

Poetic Peacocks

Peacocks are poets
Whimsical wiry walking
Eyes ever talking
Feathers floating words
Colorful as ever heard

Categories: animal, appreciation, art, bird,

Marionette

Marionette moves
manipulator hovers
someone pulling strings...
strands of literate design
the audience is transfixed

Categories: art, nostalgia,

A TANKA PROSE afterword

I walk through the glade
colour enlightens me-
 in my mind's eye
abstractions rainbow
my persoective

The soft yellow streaked the terra cotta,shadowing the speckled sallow saffron 
a bluish

Categories: tanka, art, nature, word play,

Silent

Silent One cool art
International poet
Lasting very tall
Elegant writes and poems
Northerly very bright star

Original kind
Nimble night so shining star
Enjoyable man


Acrostic Tanka & Senryu, in Andrea Dietrich

Categories: nice, poetry, poets,

BEAUTEOUS AUTUMN

Autumnal fervor
radiates majestic art
Green, red, gold, brown blends
Magnify nature’s beauty
God* marvelously designed.

*Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

November 18, 2023
3rd

Categories: appreciation, autumn, blessing, christian,

Encounter With the Wild

stains and paints a deer
after distressing the wood -
husband’s a hunter
her encounter with the wild
finds a buckshot in deer’s chest

Categories: animal, art, imagery,