Family Tanka Poems

   the Lord has blessed me.  
       I'm forever indebted 
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Pictures and trophies
Of those I love on mantel
Heartfelt memories
Of a Sailor's love and loss
Sweetly swept me off my feet

3/18/2025...

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wrote my first poem
to remember loved ones gone
some were old some young
read at a reunion 
the fading of candlelight...

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Your pain is shared, Jim;
I go to annoy by car,
not quite on a whim,
to relatives who chatter
‘bout things I'm assured matter.
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my kids once called me
the walking problem solver
~ I am the problem
they are to resolve ~ failure
I lose ~ objectives they win...

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I recall Dad’s eyes;
his glare so stern, so piercing 
- no words were needed -
but the message was so clear:
I expect better from you.

In many...

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        That was then when we 
         studied using pen...

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my new foster mom
stays one step ahead of me
planting seeds of forgiveness;
unlike my step mom
who merely plowed up my heart
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barely adult male
lacking abilities needs
aimless future trials~
driven working family 
young man dies by drunk driver...

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A slight comic gust
as vivid  autumn colour
turns laughing  dervish
we sense  the quasi-winter
prelude to Halloween fare

Back to school urchins
scream with joy to spite...

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How lovely it is,
Birthing child on Mother's Day.
An example of
Someone who has made her way
To fulfilling motherhood....

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                death colours' season
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I'm a blade of grass
My whole family crowds me
No identity 
I would like to find myself 
The  vast world a blade of grass...

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Rusty appliance
sit smile sleep slighted succumb
dead end offspring
foreign cultures revere us
disposable waste...

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She had been away,
Had walked through midnight's pathway,
She stands not alone,
No longer on a lone flight,
A home they have found with her.


December 15, 2022....

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