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Ocean Tanka Poems

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

A Triad of Tanka V: Forever Her


That first piercing stare

Which shoved my young innocence

Into confusion.

Suddenly...my little pond

Was tipped into her ocean.
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On the way to work

I would linger in the streets,

Shopping in

Categories: appreciation, beauty, innocence,

Salty Brine of Turning Tide

torrents of tears flowed
when he saw a sea dragon
beached dehydrated
for he knows that it like him
could only shed tears on land

the tears were salty
welling from

Categories: angst, anxiety, courage, forgiveness,

a trove of treasured beauties

You  
        o  p  e  n

Categories: beauty, care, heart, love,

Cut By The Sea

A block among shells
her pale jugular, it meets;
the DNA stain —
where she breached in chosen gray,
heartache jumping in her feet.

Categories: angst, deep, introspection, longing,

drizzles and sun

drizzles and sun
play songs at the ocean
with an umbrella dance
you’ll soon find
that rainbow flaunts

Categories: hope,

blazing fusion

blazing fusion
liquid water
tidal forces
three heavenly bodies
give rise to one

Categories: earth, moon, ocean, sun,

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

Categories: 9th grade, anxiety, confusion,

Wave-Thought-Enlightenment

Imagine yourself
as a wave on the ocean
and then realizing
you and the ocean are both
made of the self-same water.

Categories: allegory, allusion, analogy, meaningful,

Palms

Palm trees stand up strong
Admiring beauty around.
Ladies of the seas,
Models for cute scenery, 
Struck by wild winds ~they're fighters~

Categories: beach, beauty, feelings, nature,

ocean

O cean stretches wide.
C oral reefs form a garden.
E very tide, a swan~
A cosmos of all wonder,
N ature’s great treasure casket!

Categories: nature, ocean,

Sunset at Kiawah

Kiawah's sun dips,
Marshes blush in soft pastels,
Spring whispers low.
Egrets dance in twilight's grace,
Day ends in a gentle sigh.

Categories: sea, sunset,

At the Beach

Waves call out in song,
Sea breeze teases sunlit hair—
Sands of time await.
Flip-flops mark our path to peace,
Horizon holds dreams aloft.

Categories: beach, vacation,

Certain Area Kisses

certain area
the nice silver moon smoothly
kissed blue light ocean
gentle and lovely touching 
warm so romantic evening

Categories: beauty, romance,

Shipwrecked

Lost upon the waves,
Ship splinters 'neath storm's fury,
Sky merges with sea.
Island sands embrace my plight—
Hope blooms in the heart of night.

Categories: boat, sea,

The Ocean is a Wild Beast

The ocean is a wild beast that I approach cautiously.
I submit to its undertow. It makes me laugh expansively.
I dive in, never turn my back,

Categories: tanka, sea,