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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 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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© Jim Healey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: war,

From Those Who Were There
So you are aware:
This is what a war looks like,
from those who were there.
It's not just from those who fight,
but those with reason to care.

Leaders...

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Categories: conflict, corruption, death, grief,

Premium Member Plus Preposition: Per Resolve
I: ? Resolve

kids all playing ball
old friends laughing of old times
couples holding hands
a lone man sits wandering
face dried of tears dons a smile

II: ? Resolve

white...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: analogy,

Premium Member STORM
Somber summer storm

Teases dark clouds with lightning

Orthodox at first-

Reforms with loud thunder booms

Morphing war midst armored skies

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Categories: sky, storm, war,

Constantine and the fiery sign
A solar halo
Sol Invictus blistering 
Or the cross blazing
Burning for roman bloodshed 
Who in truth was Cain scheming 
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Categories: fire, light, miracle, sun,

Premium Member - New Year 2024 -
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Categories: new year, war, winter,

Premium Member Why Are We Here
so, why are we here? 
    this existential question,
         enduring, complex.
the answer? LOVE. without...

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Categories: god, humanity, life, love,

A Presage
The scorching sunbeams
Envelop this atmosphere
In no time, for sure,
As if Nature is about
To blow her bugle of war....

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Categories: allegory, anger, nature, pollution,


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