Spring Tanka Poems
These Spring Tanka poems are examples of Tanka poems about Spring. These are the best examples of Tanka Spring poems written by international poets.
Categories:
animal, april, cute, spring,
Spring's Teasing HueSpringtime has arrived,
And so has her yellowing;
Shading everything:-
And when her rains have fallen,
Yellow puddles spring up; achoo!...
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color, humor, hyperbole, imagery,
RoshidereSilver-haired princess
Masks her heart with icy glares
Russian secrets bloom
Whispered words like snowflakes fall
Melting on his unhearing ears
Classroom desk neighbors
She scolds his sleepy slouching
Yet yearns for...
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Categories:
high school,
Spring Rainweeping on a lea
speaking in sotto voce
I am the spring rain...
whispering to the flowers
murmuring soft to the trees...
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Categories:
nature, spring,
IN THE SPRING OF CONFUSION: A TANKA DUOTree-branched bird staring,
Looking me right in the eyes;
We both confused:
Humsn and natural nature,
Inhibiting springing peace:-
Wars' twofold nature:
Destructive storms and bombings;
Both dooming in spring:-
God's spring cleaning...
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Categories:
allegory,
THE POLITICAL NATURE OF NATURETHE POLITICAL NATURE OF NATURE
Though spring has arrived,
the politics of winter
is still teasing us:-
Yet, while cold winds have their time,
So will warm spring breeze have...
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Categories:
allegory,
Untitledlonger daylight hours
Mr. Sol warms the chill air
white blanket recedes
temperature quickly drops
new white coat winters last gasp
...
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Categories:
winter,
Categories:
beauty, fairy, flower,
Eihei Dogen Kigen translations by Michael R BurchThis world?
Moonlit dew
flicked from a crane’s bill.
—Eihei Dogen Kigen translation by Michael R. Burch
Seventy-one?
How long
can a dewdrop last?
—Eihei Dogen Kigen translation of his jisei (death...
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Categories:
flower, moon, nature, spring,
How My First Poem Was Born
By the age of nine
my poetic urge had sprung
to be part of me-
as new Spring was on its way
with the magic of my pen.
My poetic...
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Categories:
child, poetry,
StardustLonely girl sleeping
under a spring moon she dreams
dancing, stardust gown
lonely boy shyly asks her
kiss at prom of Milky Way...
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Categories:
6th grade, 7th grade,
Garden of GraceSunday church garden
of lime green blooms, reds and creams-
Luxuriousness!
Gracefulness and scented smiles
greet butterflies in hued styles.
Orange, yellows, pinks
in the sweet whirlwind of days!
Gathered together.
To the...
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Categories:
appreciation, beautiful, flower, garden,
FirefliesEvening fireflies...
fleeting illumination...
an evocation
of a warm Southern spring night
with my partner, lover, friend...
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Categories:
imagery, memory,
blooming daylilyblooming daylily
gold asiatic lily....
hummingbird sips spring
back door opens to garden
hummingbird tries to enter...
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Categories:
nature,
driving to 70s Musicbeautiful spring day
I need a convertible
driving the fast lane
playing seventies music
loving beach boys on fire...
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Categories:
nostalgia,