Mystery Tanka Poems
These Mystery Tanka poems are examples of Tanka poems about Mystery. These are the best examples of Tanka Mystery poems written by international poets.
Autumn ReverieDream leaf “fall” usher
motley hue cascade unfurled
dull grey sky gaunt sun
mud strewn pockmarks on limp moss
wet nabs ripe fruit orchard splurge
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Categories:
autumn, beauty, birth, deep,
March Mourning(i.m. Nicola Bulley)
Mist-shrouds are wrapping
Around the River Wyre's weir,
Rain-swollen waters...
Currents of secrets rushing,
Hushing reed-wrapped daffodils.
31 March 2023
March Into April Tankacrostic poetry contest...
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Categories:
death, march, mystery, tribute,
Merlin the Magic CatWhen Merlin meows,
It pulls the piano strings,
A symphony plays,
There is a sequential flow,
A door opens to this world.
October 16, 2022....
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Categories:
cat, magic, mystery,
Loneliness In ShadowsThe chair is empty
Lone candlelight creator
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Categories:
loneliness,
Forever FlowersThe cream picket fence
is crowded by vivid blooms,
peeking out at sun.
Lovely colors rise above
a fence that goes forever.
Fragrant secrets shared,
delighting the passersby,
'til a rouge sun...
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Categories:
beautiful, color, day, flower,
The Long TankaThe long Tanka
If all was lucid
If God was not a mystery
If life lacked meaning
If life was pure reasoning
If life was empty of dreams
If the sky...
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Categories:
cinderella, creation, devotion,
While Sky's In Slumberwinking moon
behind saffron clouds
playing hide-and-seek
with the stars
and me
21 February 2022
"A Brian Shortie Poetry Contest"
Sponsored by Brian Strand
1st place...
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Categories:
mystery, sky,
Shadowed PearlGifted troubled lad
Whirling pool in his chamber
Two contrasting worlds
Reside in his compartment
Gloom at the edge of his sky....
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Categories:
deep, mystery, scary,
Changing the Pasta 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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Categories:
confusion, history, perspective, political,
Calling Card of the BardIn mystery wrapped
Forever behind the scenes
Did he pen King Lear
Othello, Hamlet ~ or was
He a Midsummer's Night Dream...
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Categories:
mystery, writing,
Desert Islandbeneath circling clouds
in the depths of the ocean
with little nearby
lies a speck of an island
of but thirty-five square miles
green mountain rising
from which hot lava once...
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Categories:
history, mystery, solitude, water,
LimitlessSanta Fe sunset
Magical Mystery Taos
land of enchantment
spirits whisper on lost times
revealing the unreal...
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Categories:
drug, environment, grave, magic,
A Murder Mystery
Buzzing above me
Whizzing through shadowy flight
Stabbing fangs in skin
Causing welts and itchy bites
Festering plots slay these pests
A Buggy Tanka Contest
Sponsored by: M. L. Kiser
August 21,...
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Categories:
fun, funny, humor, humorous,
NaiveHer story will seem
But a mystery, as long
As all people thrive,
While she longs, in misery,
For worlds that’ll never be....
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Categories:
spiritual, visionary, wisdom,
VolitionSitting with stillness
seasons come without my help
Mother guides herself
grass grows flowers bloom birds sing
Nature Nirvana Rebirth...
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Categories:
appreciation, growth, mystery, nature,