Confusion Tanka Poems

Scurrying people
windy city wind whistling
Wet animals flee
Blue thunder, silver slick streets
Hued blooms close their perfumed rooms....

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Broken promise wounds
Sting with ease of negligence 
Weak and frail I plead
From the ground where you left me
Forsaking cranes fly above...

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her bed clothes
laid across her bed--
a trek to town?
her failing memory
won't lead her home


Prev. Pub. in TSA Anthology 2020...

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Trapped on clearer skin,
Leaks of fight, they pushed deep in
Like needles; hard to 
Tell what hell: hurt’s very wells,
Scars, loyal within their shell....

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easier than seems
getting lost within our dreams
is this what it means
to exist on this planet
bit more conscious than granite

the fear of being
where there's no guaranteeing
things...

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perfectly pure love
	exists in the minds of youth
	sweetest innocents  ~
		expectation emerges
		painful truth tests and confuses...

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- A Haiku
Fall Intelligent
a wooden, fancy box walks
being pushed on wheels
- A Tanka Poem
So I love my book
it’s is so merry and big.
With heavy covers
flipping...

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Knowing why...is key
Why provides enlightenment 
To things gone awry 
Key to fixing what’s broken
Why? A most important word...

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no hocus pocus
                  reality feels bogus 
 ...

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a strange sort of flow
comes with thoughts of long ago
spews a welcome glow
nostalgia may just soothe
when mixed with lies and half-truths

Hitler and his ilk
less troublesome...

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immortality
wide-spread human delusion
short lived confusion
denies the fragility
of living on this planet

most plain simple words
will have much longer life spans
than any human
focusing on the person
blurs the...

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snide terms fester in
beautiful words have vanished.
there'll be no more peace.
slice me to bits with a knife.
I can recall the first time.


Written: December 11, 2021...

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It's a little strained
what a place or shift of time
can weave a true change
If for the better or worse
yet, time may be a disaster...

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sorrow hugs my heart 
        fall’s breath rancid with her jeers 
      ...

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Soulmates MIA
life waylaid by confusion
we search a world of
topsy-turvy Escher halls
climbing flights of endless stairs...

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