Love Tanka Poems

The breeze on water—
Makes wavy figures that don’t
Drown—but are ready
To splash loud if I fall in;
All hear—where air and wet join.
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fluorescent sea chains
beach filled dreams within a dream
sun on my shoulders
swimming to your shoreline heart
blue filter abode...

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In measures of heart
we choose our fragility 
in fortresses of loving
by practical arrangements 
bottled up messages sink...

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         let’s compare our scars
      mine have faded away now 
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On blue bench beneath
A clear day kind of blue sky.
Together we turned
To have a new perspective,
Instead saw our initials....

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Who I truly am 
Always safe and sound in pages
Of books that contain 
Deepest secrets so profound
And sweet moments I loved most....

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Once so sweet for me,
Gave me this lifelong disease.
He stays unaware
How I crave him constantly,
Cannot grasp depth of my love....

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The Bath

Calmly, she cleanses
her body in my presence
before retiring
manifesting her beauty
to kindle my interest....

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Dancing In The Rain

The poetess’s dance
in the rain lightens my heart
I hear her footsteps
echoing overture words
proposing matrimony....

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A thousand times, I
kiss you with red lips of mine
lost in breathless love . . . 
A thousand feelings torment
our hearts cloaked in sweet...

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Another writer's block hour
Seems as I'm  lost in the power
Shook up and dismayed 
Locked in the jaws even a cage
I will fight with might...

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   GLOVES and MITTENS 


            Boxers love mittens
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The moon wrung cold tears
from the man’s defeated eyes
a sere memory
of his life without the love
that enabled him to dream.

14 January 2023
Bite Size Contest no59...

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pair of cardinals
sitting 'pon the red rose bush....
beaks touch, love renewed
gather nest materials
she broods, he feeds, hatchlings born...

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It is a new year
And I am still here waiting.
The future is clear,
For very soon I can choose
Living alongside you, dear.
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