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Colm Sep 2019
All Will Fall, A Tanka
Succeed a hundred
Even a thousand times more
Only to prop up
Your former self minded life
As all will fall when we die
Not to be gloomy. But we all lose to death in time. Which is fine.
#all #will #fall #*** #tanka #death #time #life #human #humanity
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Colm Sep 2019
Love Each Day, A Tanka
Kiss this youthful day
With a passionate prose tongue
And hold her hands close
As if tomorrow wont come
Though it ever will do so
Don't waste another day
Not saying words
Which should've been reinforced long ago

Live fully, darnit
#*** #tanka #about #life #and #love #short
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B Morgan Talbot Sep 2019
You'll feel better soon
Sister, eyes so blue,
Full to the brim with crying.
Sister, your mind’s true
To a heart always vying
To render it from lying.
Trying out a tanka
#short #tanka #sisters #anxiety #truth
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Colm Sep 2019
A Jealous Tanka - Her Brown Hair Fine
Between collarbone
and eyes, your smile fair and fine.
Like fields of fast grown
barley, your brown hair reminds
Me, of jealousy flowing.
A Jealous Tanka - Her brown hair fine like fields of barley - MK
#*** #jealous #tanka
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Colm Sep 2019
Youthful Summer, A Tanka
Flowers young breathing
In a new day morning shine
Basking in the glow
Of another Spring born young
Revealing a Summers teen
I'm not sure which, but either Spring or Summer is the teenager of all the seasons.
#mother #nature #tanka #verse #rhyme #spring #summer #young #season #etc
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Colm Sep 2019
Eyes Over Steaming Cup, A Tanka
It's a simple smile
Softly over a small cup
Of steaming coffee
Which cries almost quietly
"Joy alive in crinkled eyes"
Happiness is overrated. But Joyfulness through faith, cannot enough be exaggerated.

Perhaps a verbal self-portrait of sorts. Lolz.
#eyes #over #steaming #cup #that #thing #my #do #*** #tanka
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Colm Sep 2019
Shooting Stars, A Tanka
The stars know no cold
Like the lonely walking minds
Who know, what it means
To be more than just burning
Atmospheric dust yearning
Shooting Stars, A Tanka
#shooting #stars #*** #tanka
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Colm Sep 2019
Sunset, Lovers Torn, Tanka
Cool blue turns calm dusk
To hopeful still and quiet
As warm well lit dawn
Arrives in full force of arms
To carry tired lovers torn
Sunset, Lovers Torn, Tanka
#sunset #lovers #torn #tanka
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Oscar Similan Aug 2019
Tanka 2M
music makes no sound
food has no flavor
the sky either shines or rains
all the time remains taken
without you I have nothing
#tanka #love #breakup #separation #relationships
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Oscar Similan Aug 2019
Tanka 2O
Our World is burning
but underneath the cover
is my paradise
painting over this pale life
It makes misery worth it
#tanka #life #pain #party #joy #escape
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