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Water Tanka Poems

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


Premium Member fragrance of a skunk
pungent skunk like smell
my nose feels assaulted
eyes quickly water
horrible stench makes me wail
i quickly see Bambi's friend...

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Categories: animal,



Premium Member Time and Care
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water of the clouds
feeds and nurtures spring garden
filled with hopeful dreams
time and care will generate
fresh life with the young seedlings
...

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Categories: rain, spring,

Premium Member To everything there is a season
The moonbroch is quite pronounced tonight—rain can’t be far off. It will be good for the vegetable garden and save my back from having to...

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Categories: tanka, life, nature, seasons,

Aconite Ink Blue
aconite ink blue
habenaria pure white
spring smoothly blossom
a light calming pink lotus,
the queen of water lilies
...

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Categories: adventure, love, rose,

SeaGoat
Ambition unfurled
          Oceans deep to mountains high
         ...

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Categories: appreciation, birthday, december, earth,



Haiku-Tanka-Senryu

Silent pond water,
A frog springs off a lily,
The ripples recede. 

The passing of time,
A drifting piece of plastic,
They gather many.
The dirty ditch of water,
Ignored by...

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Categories: tanka, 7th grade, environment, nature,

Vivisteria
Traveling bubbled,
Floating through your element
To witness flowers
Blooming from my flaming glow,
More beautiful than you know....

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Categories: film, fire, flower, love,

Premium Member Peasant
Cement sidewalks blaze 
My feet I need nourishment 
Here there's water sweet!
I have traveled painfully 
I now finally feed treat!...

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Categories: allusion, devotion,

Premium Member Nuances of Pink
Water lily lake
in hot pink epoch of sun
Coral lilies bob
Fuchsia flight, dusk melodies
Salmon rose sends scents

Moonlight lake gleams, as
skies darken to amaranth
Pink daisy twilight
Gathering sweet...

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Categories: beauty, color, flower, fruit,

Love Tanka
i

when the sun is erotic
and the moon lyric
the winds turn tempestuous
in the orbit of love
legs slide by calls of nature

ii

you and I alive
in cold winter...

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Categories: body, love, senses, sexy,

Premium Member Lulled In Quietude
peaceful solitude

amidst flora and fauna

let the mood dally

until bluest skies go gray

and sky water gently falls...

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Categories: dream, inspirational, nature, peace,

The Sound of Waves
serenity in
harmonious disturbance,
the waves come and go
and there is no greater joy
than to just follow their lead....

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Categories: beach, inspiration, ocean, water,

Touched By This Element
Water sinks in me,  
Helps flush the pain, so yet deep—
Made a heart for storms,
Its mild poise or stagnant play—
Dries in growth— willful, it...

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Categories: care, deep, devotion, feelings,

Premium Member Amore Aq U Ahhhh
fluorescent sea chains
beach filled dreams within a dream
sun on my shoulders
swimming to your shoreline heart
blue filter abode...

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Categories: fantasy, love, magic, soulmate,

Five Tanka Poems
1.	She gives him the push
when he says sex starving
is a greater sin
than fasting for his long life
or praying to the lingam*

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Categories: bird, body, moon, sin,


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