Tanka - Hello Poetry

Jun 2015

Mrs Ashley Somebody

Perfect

You’re a perfect dream
Only lovely in my heart;
But when I wake up,
Daylight shines on me and says,
“He’s perfect, and you are not.”

Part 1

#dream #logic #perfect #reason #imperfect #tanka #daylight #57577 #1sentence

Nov 2014

Mrs Ashley Somebody

Lights

Lights flash overhead,
Shadows lace the journey on:
Heavenly beings.
Life has accelerated;
Death rushes up to my face.

#life #death #shadow #run #journey #fast #fate #tanka #lights #57577

Nov 2014

Mrs Ashley Somebody

Insecure

He said that I looked
Pretty, as a compliment
But it made me doubt;
I felt that he shouldn't have
It made me feel insecure.

#doubt #insecure #compliment #tanka #pretty #57575 #dontcrushonme

Nov 2014

Mrs Ashley Somebody

Songs

There are too few words
Adequate or meaningful
To describe you right.
But a hundred, thousand songs
Describe you just perfectly.

#word #words #music #perfect #hundred #song #describe #adequate

Nov 2014

Mrs Ashley Somebody

Tears (Pt 2)

My eyes freeze and glass
The nerves in my nose tingle
And my throat closes;
Tears well up inside, bound up
And determined to remain.

When a song is so beautiful, and you're trying not to cry.

#eyes #tears #cry #silent #throat #tanka #nose #57577 #remain #dontcry

Nov 2014

Mrs Ashley Somebody

D5

It bothers me so:
My voice cannot reach that high.
I want to awe them,
But I can barely reach D;
So don't laugh now when I squeak.

#song #sing #high #tanka #reach #d #57577 #squeak #octaves #d5

Nov 2014

Mrs Ashley Somebody

Forgetting

Forgetting your face
Is easy; forgetting your name
Is simple; but you,
And what you turned me into,
Will not leave my memory.

#love #heart #hate #mind #change #forgetting #memory #turn #tanka #57577

Nov 2014

Mrs Ashley Somebody

Blood

They always tell me,
Blood is thicker than water:
But the salt in me
Is the salt of the great sea
Tied of ropes thicker than blood.

#heart #water #blood #sea #thick #salt #saltwater #tanka #rope #57577

Nov 2014

Mrs Ashley Somebody

Bravery

It's that cold, small lump
Lying in my stomach here
Keeping me away.
I wish I had the guts to
I wish I had bravery.

#away #brave #bravery #wish #courage #hurts #keep #tanka #stomach #57577

Nov 2014

Mrs Ashley Somebody

Dagger

You were a dagger
Plunged to the depths of my soul,
Numbing me since then;
The rest of the sharp arrows
That found their mark are painless.

#pain #hurt #soul #numb #dagger #tanka #arrow #sharp #57577 #forevernumb

Oct 2014

Mrs Ashley Somebody

The Fire

Fire burns in my veins,
Uncontrollable, flaming;
And won't let me be.
I don't understand myself
When the fire burns inside me.

#fire #burn #uncontrollable #flame #tanka #57577

Oct 2014

Mrs Ashley Somebody

So Cold

Afraid to open
And to be vulnerable;
To let you inside
And to let you feel my hands
They're so cold; I long to *feel.

#hands #feel #inside #hand #vulnerable #open #show #tanka #57577 #socold

Sep 2014

Mrs Ashley Somebody

Honestly

To you, my life is,
Or it is not, you aren't sure;
You really don't know.
So what am I really like?
And honestly, do you care?

#life #know #understand #care #tanka #mylife #57577 #honestly #mylifeis