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Seema Feb 2018
The blood stains dried up.
Looking like dubbed marbles
Dark like maroonish,
in color. That's where she lived.
Amongst the clean polished floors.


©sim
Tanka
5-7-5-7-7 syllables
Liesl Feb 2018
He came in winter
But by spring your love had thawed
Summer makes you cry;
You still remember the way
The autumn winds blew him home.
I wanted this poem to be a little open ended; did the autumn winds blow him back to you, or away from you?
Vii HunniD Feb 2018
When blamed we are impeccable
Our incorrect mistakes are imperfectible
Truthlessly resistance is lethal
We are imperious also impertinence
The truth is improper inaccessible
Just my thoughts
Vii HunniD Feb 2018
When blamed we are impeccable
Our incorrect mistakes are imperfectible
Truthlessly resistance is lethal
We are imperious also impertinence
The truth is improper inaccessible
Just my thoughts
Neuvalence Jan 2018
Precious violet
Near a pond of vibrancy
Colours soon to fade
In your last freshness and youth
Why has your beauty withered?

—=—My first tanka <3—=—
CrookedMantis Dec 2017
Deep within the dirt
I claw at the stars above
In need of their warmth
I graze their pulsating light
With cold, oaken fingertips
CrookedMantis Dec 2017
The night light flickers
Into the shadows I stare
This is not my room
My room does not have a light
A cold sweat grasps my forehead
Arianne Kirsten Nov 2017
Wrestling with the sea
The wind is passing, passing
Clashing with waters
With it comes a follower,
Rain, brewing another storm
You can find my grave
buried beneath the practiced,
perfected simper.
Don't confuse the glow behind
my lids as life. No one's home.
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