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Renée Brookes Jul 2020
Nature vs Nurture
A flower’s beauty,
may blossom remarkably,
in harsh conditions;
plugging the funnel: nurture,
in light of one’s true nature.
#selflove #selfgrowth #flower #beauty #tanka #tankapoem #tankapoetry
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neth jones Jul 2020
Tanka Event homework 2
(#10)

My friend gets published
fans himself with magazine
printed on the face
I feel joy at his good work
no impeding jealousy
#tanka #homework
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Renée Brookes Jun 2020
Snow Goddess
Frozen cold as ice,
Her eyes still on intention.
Self meditation,
Melts dreams into fruition.
Calm, the breeze of higher self.
6.14.20
#yukionna #tanka #japanesepoem #snow #selfcaee #meditation #goddess #manifest #manifestation
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Elizabeth Squires Jun 2020
Majestic Air (Tanka)
a cerulean sky
presided o'er the landscape
in regal blue rule
its exhibited decree
beheld a majestic air
#tanka #creulean #sky #presided #regal #rule #exhibited #decree #beheld #majetic
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ali Jun 2020
no. 8
why can’t oxygen
ever be enough to feel
safe in my own skin

i just want to feel alive
unbothered by my own thoughts
i feel like my brain is constantly running a hundred miles per hour. it’s draining and exhausting, and i could really use a break from myself right about now.
#tanka #anxiety
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Elizabeth Squires Jun 2020
Subterranean Sprouts (Tanka)
beneath the earth's soil
a vast network of roots lay
which succor plant growth
they ingest the loam's good food
through their subterranean sprouts
#tanka #roots #earth #soil #succor #plant #ingest #subterranean #sprouts
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ArianLlwyn Jun 2020
Plea
It’s suffocating
These things you’ve long yearned for me,
Please just let me breathe,
Listen to my somber plea,
Please, I just want to be me.
My first attempt at Tanka poetry
#tanka
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