#tanka poems on Hello Poetry

Norman Crane Sep 2021

Flight

heart beating // beating
wings lift me and flight begins
bare feet above ground
the world receding / the world
beginning [...] to appear small.

#tanka #flying #flight

Norman Crane Sep 2021

Headspace

my face is hollow
grated like jail, rusted and
overgrown with vines
blooming bloodflowers which burst
dripping endlessly inward

#tanka

Norman Crane Sep 2021

Vertigo

follow her follow
her doubled in greenlit
rooms,   golden bridges
possess her    /    she is possessed
of death: falling—.  in love again.

#tanka #cinema #film #hitchcock

Norman Crane Sep 2021

Rashomon

woodcutter's sunlight
absent like truth at the gate
at raintime; strangers'
memories, flowing as mud
a samurai was killed, but—

#tanka #film #cinema #kurosawa

Norman Crane Sep 2021

Citizen Kane

Snow. Globe / Newspaper
:: tycoon revealed as nothing
but a boy, taken
from mother / Nature simple
as a sled burning: "Rosebud."

#tanka #cinema #film #welles

Norman Crane Sep 2021

Boiling Point

coffee cup broken
pieces strewn across the floor
sharp words were spoken
now we are silent; no more
(s)weeping; sad ceramic gore

#tanka #short #rhyme #rhyming #anger #argument

Norman Crane Sep 2021

idlenest

leaves accumulate
on the wet windshield / wipers
off: my car idles
by the local corner store
we had candy / you wanted
more.

#short #tanka

Norman Crane Sep 2021

Early Autumn

summer lingers on
september on and on and
gone / chill of october dawn:
pink frost, dew, warm bed, me, you
—till the alarm clock turns on.

#short #summer #fall #autumn #tanka #gentle #nature

neth jones Aug 2021

00111 01

overnight
the humidity broke
release
underfoot discarded Cicada sheathes
litter a cooling pavement

VERSIONS

overnight
the humidity broke
underfoot
the chaff of many Cicadas

*

when will the humidity break ?
cicada jackets litter the pavements
into the night
tough breathing aggravates
thought retreats to past struggles
and envisions tough changes to come

#tanka #short #cicada #humidity

D Thornhill Aug 2021

tanka 23

always a time comes
when a decision is made
of which to follow,
childhood or adulthood dreams
smart ones pick floating castles

©️ dt + b

#tanka