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Breon Jan 2019
self-portrait (tanka)
If a picture buys
Something like a thousand words,
Which of us is robbed
If I should, as a kindness,
Paint with so few syllables?
#tanka #brevity
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Edward Jan 2019
Nier
Emotion is not us,
You said frustratedly, but I,
As I was to die,
You wanted to save my shell,
The human part of you was why
#nier #2b #humanity #irrationality #tanka
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Edward Jan 2019
Dark Eyes
I saw you across
The room, not turning to me.
To meet my dark eyes,
And whisper to me softly,
What all those lines tried to hide.
#melancholia #darkness #secrets #loneliness #tanka
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Ruheen Jan 2019
I Know You, But I Don't
I thought I knew you,
But I guess not anymore.
I knew the old you.
You thought you knew me too, right?
But you don't, 'cause I've changed too.
People change. You think you know someone, but then you realize that you don't.
#tanka #truecolors
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raphæl Dec 2018
petrichor
the dank soil tightened
scent of relief after rain
sunset burned like sighs
in time the gray sky turns blue
so do the streaks in their eyes
#57577 #tanka #minimalism
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raphæl Dec 2018
beauty
lads water her mind
"You look so gorgeous today"
but she's done with scripts
she tests those eyes if they stay
when trivial beauty is stripped
#57577 #tanka #minimalism
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well this is awkward Dec 2018
No One Can Compare (Tanka)
Wind stings and nips at
My cheek, but it’s nothing like
Your seasoned kisses.
Kisses that I am lacking
From your sly lips: bitter-sweet.
Bitter-sweet is bitter because of the cunning and manipulative lips, and is sweet because, indeed, my ‘lover’s’ kisses were magical—entrancing!
#tanka #seasons #kisses #love #manipulation #lackoflove #faraway #destination #nature #lover
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Seema Dec 2018
My Child (Tanka #65)
Lazy as a sloth
Muddy, playful paws in shade
Throwing in tantrums
Playing hide and seek daily
My amazing little child



©sim
Tanka
5-7-5-7-7 syllables
#thoughts #life #tanka #dog
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hedonistic sentience Dec 2018
319
Things I'll never know,
And the things I will regret,
Swarm in my headspace,
A mass of mess and clutter.
Please don't throw your life away.
#tanka
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