Tag: tanka
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Conversion: a #tankaprose
The darkness deepens around you. The snarls of salivating wolves grow closer and louder behind you. So you run. The wolves give chase. Panting, struggling, stumbling, screaming, you scramble to stay ahead of certain death. Until you realize that those snarling, salivating wolves are your fears. The deepening darkness around you is your own ignorance…
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“vacation’s end…” a #tanka (7/18/24)
7/19/24: postcards vacation’s end a last opportunity for postcards as if the memories weren’t enough #tanka#micropoetry#poetry
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“still reading…” a #tanka / #kyoka (7/17/24)
7/17/24: reading still reading the signs of the times a closed trilogy and yet so many more await #tanka#kyoka#micropoetry#poetry
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“first stars…” a #tanka (7/11/2024)
7/11/24: cigarette first stars the last cigarette thrown away a wisp of smoke rising up #tanka#micropoetry#poetry
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“after…” a #tanka (7/10/24)
7/10/24: ashes after the fire ashes all that’s left of these dreams #tanka#micropoetry#poetry
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Incarnating Inspiration
As if there could be any other way. As though muscles on metacarpals, under the muse’s sway, could do anything else… poeming this endlessly stretching blank page tonight, this white space just no rhymes, no words That moment when poet and poem bleed into each other. Who knows where one ends, the other begins? find…
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“late June sun…” a #tanka (6/27/24)
6/27/24: little late June sun “you make me love you with a little L…” still, we walk to and around Five Islands Park #tanka#micropoetry#poetry
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“north wind…” a #tanka (6/24/24)
6/24/24: streets north wind sudden swaying trees on these streets what do you see before you die? #tanka#micropoetry#poetry
