Art Tanka Poems

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
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Silken thread descends,
A patient hunter's ballet,
Web of subtle art.
Then, swift strike, a captured prize,
Eight eyes watch in silent grace.

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

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willfully drenched 
light tricks the darkness 
shards skillfully dissect
I stare into the sun 
become its after image...

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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...

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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...

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

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

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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Pardon for fingers
Body painting my fixed face—
Marking up a scene
Of raw phantasms that look
Like they're falling for my tears....

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Metals I adore
Shiniest gemstones galore.
Staring into store
Windows filled with those jewels,
Filled with beautiful colors....

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