#TANKA

[poppiesandpromises]

My flip gets switched

By a tender sunshine smile

A hand reaching out

My friends are all electric—

I've seen them light up a room

[metamorphesque]

tanka #3, Tathev Simonyan

[mylittletankaworld]

as river waters, words, too, are never the same otherwise, how could what I once deeply treasured now be the cause of such pain?

[drearydaffodil]

It's no longer pain

I am just a winter house

Where icicles grow

Desultory sun peeks through

Like a beautiful weapon

[clarkkantagain]

christian hogue by jake lyle

[rodolfo9999]

rodolfo tanka

寄り���えと、わたしに言うなお前らよ、突き飛ばしたのは一体誰だ

"Come closer," you say, But don't tell me that, O you all. Who was it that pushed me away?

[rumeko]

2024.9.17 中秋の名月

名月の輝く空に君想う

旅行く道にその笑み照らせ

[megaakaiiro]

[dbaydenny]

Why We Keep Writing

When the last words failed

we search for new ones, always

poets and writers

stubborn, never giving up,

determined to make a point.

.

D W Eldred

[rhymingtherapy]

newborn kangaroos

known as joeys by the mob

love their mobile homes

father is buck or boomer

mother is devoted doe

@RhymingTherapy—Dec 2023 (my video)

[journalofanobody]

Tanka

I can count the days,

count them backward to a time

when I was happy.

There I was in a cafe,

waiting for someone I loved.

-- Michael Boiano

[poppiesandpromises]

A person never

Dies only once, it happens

Each time you recall

And so, too, they will still survive

In the forest of your mind

[metamorphesque]

tanka #4, Tathev Simonyan

[mylittletankaworld]

our fragile thread snapped I've cut it with my own hands now, only silence. restlessly, I spend my nights yet, in dreams, you still find me

[drearydaffodil]

Here I am again

The same bloody knuckles still

Clutching so tightly

To the same amorphous dreams

The same hunger gnaws at me

[jonaswpoetry]

Defeatist undertone

Which spiralling heart

leads this dance upon the deck

of our sinking ship?

—

Cold depths await, but

might we not already be

lost, scattered, and wrecked?

@nosebleedclub July Prompts 23. Toxic relationship