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Death Tanka Poems

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


Premium Member Of A Confused Nightmare Dream
Of A Confused Nightmare Dream
(A Thought Provoking Tanka Trio)

Is sleeping dreamless,
Short-lived life’s resurrection,
Or death’s fantasy?
Can living fake its own death
In confusing nightmare dreams?

I thought I...

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Categories: confusion, death, dream, hyperbole,



Premium Member THE ABSURDITY OF WARRING FOR PEACE
Evilly absurd,
Bombing lives doesn’t win peace;
Just wishful power:-
War and peace are antonyms.
You can’t make them synonyms:-

War can not bring peace,
Just collateral damage,
And high death rates:-
Peace...

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Categories: allegory, death, life, love,

G
Never invited
Lost in the bottle from you
I didn't cause this
You told lies to my landlord
The neighbors warned me of you
...

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Categories: addiction, bullying, death, loss,

Premium Member Her Voice Resonates
Her voice resonates
Strongly in my delighted ear;
My soul smiles -
As if she'd not died years ago
And been shut away in a wall ......

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Categories: death, in memoriam, voice,

Premium Member Etched on Stone
     Geologist George 
     chose inscription to be etched 
     on stone of...

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Categories: fun,



Premium Member Scratched
making marriage vows
           forever they declared
         ...

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Categories: love,

Premium Member All Talk
Hawaii fireworks
still deadly and maim for life
like annual debates
Hawaiian language council 
argues o'er Kona coffee...

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Categories: conflict, death, fate, grief,

Premium Member Mental Prism
Escaped leave parts way
sensed brittle cell bathes
feign light darkens hope
bottled self awashed
price of freedom death...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: anxiety, conflict, death, extended

Eihei Dogen Kigen translations by Michael R Burch
This world?
Moonlit dew
flicked from a crane’s bill.
—Eihei Dogen Kigen translation by Michael R. Burch

Seventy-one?
How long
can a dewdrop last?
—Eihei Dogen Kigen translation of his jisei (death...

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Categories: flower, moon, nature, spring,

Tanka
I stare at the sky
all day long, wondering if
I'll last or be 
gone, the ocean tides rise till neck
can't tell apart life and death...

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Categories: 9th grade, anxiety, confusion,

Premium Member Birth Of My First Poem

Dad's workshed dusty
cobwebs, cans and jars hold stuff
old tools hang on hooks. 
That day I wept my Dad's death
and my first poem was born....

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Categories: emotions, feelings, poetry,

Premium Member Lost Love

Echoing beyond
You said foerever endless
Our song would play on
And now a silence engulfs
A screaming heart unable




...

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Categories: death, lost, lost love,

Premium Member She Wishes She Could Die
She wanted to die,
But they knew it was a lie.
She would always cry
After all of what she'd try
To end all the reasons why....

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Categories: angst, cry, death, depression,

Premium Member How My First Poem Was Born
My daughter’s last breath
my first poem, “Stay,” was born—
a sad mother’s grief,
desperate for a reason
to stay for another day....

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Categories: birth, daughter, death, grief,

A Birch Tree's Confidence and The Weeping Willow's Lament
A BIRCH TREE'S CONFIDENCE

A young tree stands tall
Rooted to the woodland floor
Thinks itself immune
To all the struggles in store
As ignorant as a child

THE WEEPING WILLOW'S...

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Categories: 9th grade, death, humanity,


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