Sad Love Tanka Poems

The toll of the bells
As my most broken heart swells,
From loss of a love
Believed as sent from above.
Dying a little deep down....

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Why am I the one 
To do everything I can,
Everything for you,
But just can't bring myself to...?
I just want to be with you....

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Tho’ albeit late,
Night already turned to morn’,
Tears, as the sun rise;
One thing I wish to return,
To say “I love you, as well”....

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Tears fall, silent rain,
Heart aches to heal unseen wounds.
Hands reach, touch the void,
In the dance of shadowed dreams,
Love whispers, yet remains bound....

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(a reply to my poem entitled, "A Moonstone")

You glow with the sun,
You float in the sea of stars,
In darkness, still beautiful.
I will adore you myself,
Even...

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Words caved in darkness,
Heart, torn apart every time,
I cry without tears.
You adore that sweet flower,
Too bad, I'm just a Moonstone....

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Was I just learning
How to love somebody else
Through all of these years?
What then of my old yearning?
Why do these thoughts bring me tears?...

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Frequent the Showers
Feeds the rain deep in one’s heart…
Gone the sunlit smile
Now no rainbow resides here
Just the rhythm of the pain....

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despite affection
your inner core was cruel
I gave love freely
yet you turned it against me
I cry into my pillow...

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My heart cares so much,
But knows when it's had enough.
I know, what you mean.
As this love grows, I learn well,
Why I can never let go....

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Train wreck, missing you;
Transport me five hours backward,
or move forward days;
Since you left nothing’s been right;
Fill in the lines, bring back ‘Home’....

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If I sit closer, 
My voice would be quieter.
Push me away, then
My feelings alone will be
Louder than ever before....

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He who stared at me

with such sweet smiling blue eyes

saw me later at college 

and let his gaze pass through me -

the ghost with a...

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Bouquets overflowed
marriage smelling like a rose
years came and they went
fragrant flower lost its scent
like wilted rose in repose.




6-24-17...

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Sometimes I feel like
that you are so far away
from me that only
the cheek of your shadow will
be touched in this life of mine....

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