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Brian Yule Aug 2021
Wind-dance
Umbrella tangos
With a long-faded Cubs cap
In the sudden gale
Halestruck street swift abandoned
Stray dog their sole spectator
#tanka #nature #moment
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Cedric Jul 2021
"Running Out"
Oh lonesome songbird
Sing a song to sing along
Thick air in a fog
Just sing along all alone
Your breath is long gone… so long
#tanka
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Cedric Jul 2021
"Stars"
A wandering mind
Heart beating slow and steady
The night has not come
But in your eyes are the stars
They shine ever so brightly
#tanka
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D Thornhill Jul 2021
tanka 22
all day rain fell soft
dusk brought air thick and steamy
within night’s darkness
first fireflies of summer flew
as dancers of the night air
©️ dt + b
#tanka
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Rama Krsna Jun 2021
ephemeral (tanka)
death in the mirror
as time stealthily gallops......
my life flashes by
like orange tip butterflies
tap dancing from rose to rose


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a tanka is a Japanese style poem which is written with a syllable structure of  5/7/5/7/7
#life #death #immortality #time #illusion #nature #tanka
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FlavioPAR Jul 2021
Quicksand
Frightening isn't it?
How quick are we to sink
From thoughts and fears
Even in the unsinkable
Steadiness of the daily grind
#tanka #japanese
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FlavioPAR Jul 2021
Moon watching
Why is it so, that
In the guiltless suffering
We wander so deep
So lost and astray in thought
To create and contemplate
#tanka #japanese #q
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D Thornhill Jul 2021
tanka 25
for a day they say
it’s your birthday, not so fast,
to me, it’s more an
anniversary, one long
past the diamond jubilee
©️ dt + b
#tanka
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Brian Yule Jul 2021
Kitchen, Christmas morning
Crushed thyme & rosemary
The mountain of spuds fresh peeled
Leave sapped arms aching
Granny still fussing over
All dinner's little just so's
#tanka #family #food
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D Thornhill Jul 2021
tanka 24
fireworks soar tonight
rockets of red, white and blue,
oooh’s and aaaah’s
between bangs, booms and thunder
rejuvenates our resolve
©️ dt + b
#tanka
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