Tri-Tanka I (tanka)

To start this series
in thirty-one syllables
Japanese Tanka
A short song to bring you joy
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So here are first lines
Crafted by the poet’s hand
Found and captured here
To form and syntax structured
Voicing life in five short lines

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Tanka: Morning Love

 

you awaken me

dove’s wing kisses on pale skin

Last day tanka

Twenty seventeen
And with Auld Lang Syne tonight
For sake of old times
We’ll take a cup of kindness
Old acquaintances renewed

Christmas Mummer – December 18, 2017 (tanka)

eventide
waltzing through the street
winter mummers*
twirling golden fairy lights
one for every season

gsk ’17

Autumn Reflections (haiku -tanka)

 

orange squash
bubbling in a pot
silence deepens
then from the window
laughter! children playing ball

evening shadow
in the naked kaki* tree
a last leaf falls

gsk ’17

• kaki – persimmon

Dichotomy (tanka)

Without is sunshine
new green, a warm gentle breeze—

#Tanka: Scorching

Scorching summer sun

 

Throws shadows on hot pavement

#Tanka: Reflection & Vision

Memories fill hearts

#21 POETRY =

By Charles Robert Lindholm 

Poetry =

#Tanka: What Is Love

 

Savage heart ponders

 

When desire runs rampantly

Help for a haiku

Stuck in a Haiku?
Feel that you’ve nowhere to go?
Why not try Tanka?
Two extra lines to play with
and thirty-one syllables

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Rest in Peace

tanka

I lie down in peace
releasing all cares to God
who works while I sleep

Fog on the Ring – tanka

Fog thick as pea soup
shrouds the Sussex countryside
Trees hide like shadows
Quiet whispers, coy and shy
as again I climb the Ring

Lazy day – tanka

Breakfast in Brighton
November morning sunshine
follows after rain
Both providing sustenance
for lazy Sunday slowness

Leonard Cohen – tanka

Leonard Cohen plays
his music to the angels
in the small hours now
Melancholy fades away
as Leonard now rests in peace

Yuletide Promise – tanka

Christmas in the air
from a large Yankee candle
A fragrant garland
hints of promises to come
within its flickering flame

Last Lavender – tanka

Yet, as winter comes
the last lavender remains
Born of the summer
it stands, poignant to remind
us of warmth now lost to chill

Summer’s Child – tanka

Thoughts turn to summer
upon these cold winter days
and a part of me
hibernates and pines away
Here, bereft, cries ‘Summer’s Child’

Halcyon days – tanka

Woodsmoke lingers here
on the days dying embers
fragrant on the air
It permeates my being
The whimsy of halcyon days

The long mile – tanka

I walk the long mile
the sea sings her songs to me
and I am at peace
In this place my heart and soul
with the ocean are as one

Defeat

Captured by demons.
Long nails gouge my ego
With gnarled fingers.
Ever they’ve crept in my wake.
At last, my race is over.

Hummingbird

Tanka Poem

Tiny hummingbird,

Wings flapping, in air sustains.

Flying up and down,

Love Birds

Tanka Poem

Love birds on the wall,

Their Beaks rubbing, legs dancing.

Eggs, incubating.

Brynn The Cat – Haiku and Tanka

Brynn The Cat

 

peekaboo …
awaiting her human
the cat watches

Rose Hips – Haiku

 

 

 

of winter roses
all that remains now
frozen hips

~ Priceless Gifts

Here

My child,

Take

This water…

Haiku and Tanka – double entendre avec musique

Humoresque
fowl improvisations
on an evening walk

Inevitable – Inescapable (Morning Haiku and Waka)

 

in this silence
walking through a snow bound field
a frozen red rose