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War Tanka Poems

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


Premium Member TEXAS FLOODING WARS
TEXAS FLOODING WARS
(Apropos Of A Lesson Of Nature)

The flood waters came,
leaving lost lives washed away;
eyes flooded with tears:
Nature herself, warring with
collateral disaster:-

So many children
won’t be...

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Categories: allegory,



The Art of Letting Go

A leaf lets go mild,
moving down through brilliant shine~
no war, no regret.
Even parting has its joy,
when the weather knows its time.

...

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Categories: goodbye,

Premium Member Let's Just Get Along, Agree to Differ in Consensus
the world is bleeding
fighting never-ending wars
that began and raged
with beliefs and politics ~
peace never, in consensus

Let's just agree - 'to beg to differ'...

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Categories: war,

Premium Member A CAPITALISTIC PERSPECTIVE ON WAR: A TANKA QUINTET FLOW
Bombs begetting bombs, 
War mongers are safe and sound;
Others being bombed:
The bombing of others reaps
Bloody power over them

No matter who dies,
Nuclear war bombing pays off;
Bombs...

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Categories: allegory,

Premium Member THE ULTIMATE NATURE OF WAR
THE ULTIMATE NATURE OF WAR

Sown love reaps world peace,
While sown hate will reap world war:
Power its sower:-
Sharers of love will sow peace:
Profiteers of war, sow...

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Categories: allegory, analogy, extended metaphor,



Premium Member IN AND OF CREATION'S RESPONSIBILITY


IN AND OF CREATION’S RESPONSIBILITY
(A Tanka 3 For The 6 and 7 days Given You & Me)

God simply whispered,
“...Be light…”! And here we all are:
All...

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Categories: allegory, life, peace, perspective,

Premium Member To Being Waters Of God
To Being Waters Of God  

Wars evaporate
the lives God gives us to live;
but peace hydrates them:-
It’s time for us to hydrate
and dissolve life’s worldwide...

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Categories: allegory, analogy, introspection, life,

Premium Member The drone of birds in war offensive
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The drone of birds in war offensive
hear the drone of war
pity the birds, amassing
way out there someplace,
they'll be back in droves to drone
the piteous drum...

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Categories: bird, war,

Premium Member THE ABSURDITY OF WARRING FOR PEACE
Evilly absurd,
Bombing lives doesn’t win peace;
Just wishful power:-
War and peace are antonyms.
You can’t make them synonyms:-

War can not bring peace,
Just collateral damage,
And high death rates:-
Peace...

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Categories: allegory, death, life, love,

Premium Member GOD'S FLOWERS
GOD'S FLOWERS

We're not buds of war,
we're the flowers of God,
scented with his love.
The world is God's garden.
We must fruit it with world peace:-


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Categories: allegory,

Premium Member ERUPTING WORLD WARS
Pandemic warring,
Human nature’s volcanic
Lava flow of hate;
Scorching love with agony:
Her world’s peace flowing away:-
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Categories: allegory,

Premium Member Written in Response to Pensive Solitude on The Eve of This Night Revisited
An outcast this night,
I mournfully sigh with gloom:
but, I make war, fight!
to defeat my rising doom,
and defend my haunted tomb.

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Categories: depression, loneliness, lonely, longing,

Premium Member IN AND OF CREATION'S RESPONSIBILITY
God simply whispered,
“...Be light…”! And here we all are:
All engaged in war:
A world created in love;
Peacefully from up above:-

Why can’t we not see,
A world given...

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Categories: allegory, god, gospel, life,

Premium Member IN AND OF CREATION'S RESPONSIBILITY
God simply whispered,
“...be light…”! and here we all are:
all engaged in war:
A world created in love;
Peacefully from up above:-

Why can’t we not see,
A world given...

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Categories: allegory, creation, life, love,

Premium Member News Reports
News reports of war                     ...

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Categories: war,


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