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Youth Tanka Poems

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

Charmed

Oh, please, tell me please-
The name of the lovely lass.
Her charming smile,-
Angelic face and brown eyes,-
Captured my heart in a flash.

I was enchanted-
In a twinkling

Categories: emotions, happy, imagination, magic,

BUNNY - POTD

Bunny very cute
Under a big bush sleeping
Now she is awake
No one knows you are my pet
You and I friends forever

Categories: animal, cute, fun, giggle,

Puerility

Childlike wonder fades, 
In the mirror, time's soft theft. 
Hearts once light, now weigh, 
Dreams of youth, a distant breath, 
Wisdom's price, the joy it

Categories: child, silly,

Fate

The soft zephyr hums
the carefree spirit of youth.
A calf ruminates
under the sun's gentle rays.
Tomorrow, the slaughterhouse.

Categories: animal,

Repent

repent
with sackcloth and ashes
turn back
to prayer in schools
skeleton phalanges off our youth

Categories: child abuse,

Elderside Or Youth Beware

Rusty appliance
sit smile sleep slighted succumb
dead end offspring
foreign cultures revere us
disposable waste

Categories: age, family, obituary, relationship,

December Toils of Travels

Hurt of holidays,
December vacation daze
From toils and travails
Of tense, maddening travels,
Remorse on return, mind blasé.
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Tanka |07.12.2022| 
Poet’s note: Some social visits this December following deaths

Categories: december, holiday, travel,

Pure Love

perfectly pure love
	exists in the minds of youth
	sweetest innocents  ~
		expectation emerges
		painful truth tests and confuses

Categories: confusion, innocence, love, pain,

Rosy Day Running

Exhilaration!
Feet pounding windswept pavements
people thrilled to run.
Red butterflies in tandem-
Invigorated heartbeats.

Day to satin night
on every viable route
energetic youth!
Pretty, fleeting scenery
like rosy days going by.

Categories: butterfly, day, nature, night,

Youthful

I thought I was young 
Fifty-five then fifty six
Pass here sixty years 
I would rather enjoy youth 
Instead I'm counting my years

Categories: age, youth,

Redwood Skies

Redwoods cloaked in green
home to golden birds, singing
up in true blue skies
So ancient and prodigious
hailing the stars and the moon

Redwood rosy morn
redwood soaked in the

Categories: age, beauty, color, nature,

Just August

Summer is ending 
hot days filled with outside fun, 
our sleeping in late. 
August ends our days off ~ done, 
back to school we must

Categories: day, fun, school, sleep,

Childhood Nostalgia

Magic silver key,
fits into my silver shoes.
I was now set free,
I now owned many sidewalks.
My new skates were a big thrill.

 

Date Written: 8/4/2022

2 Place

Childhood

Categories: child, freedom, fun, joy,

At the Terminal

with the sun setting, 
dusk darkens the ground below
and vistas fade out~
days flee like defeated youth
as we tread slow to our grave

Categories: death, sunset, time,

Window

through kitchen window
orange blossomed tiger lily....
whirr of hummingbird 
designed to use energy
only early in my youth   

Written: July 12, 2022
Sponsor: Brian Strand

Categories: age,