Tanka Poem

[NivKay]

Morning is a wound
Which blooms like a weeping moon
And knows no respite
Nor way to end its torment
But still I march to my end

 

[Jocelyn_Nicole_Sawyer]

Morning is a wound
Which blooms like a weeping moon
And knows no respite
Nor way to end its torment
But still I march to my end

ha-amet hee / ein li mishpat. Nessss.... Todah.

 

[NivKay]

In moonlit desire
Your petals bloom moist and bright
It's wondrous cavern
Beckons to my dark design
And so I drown down and down

 

[NivKay]

ha-amet hee / ein li mishpat. Nessss.... Todah.

Hebrew?

 

[Jocelyn_Nicole_Sawyer]

Hebrew?

leastwise I'm pretty sure...

 

[Jocelyn_Nicole_Sawyer]

no way you just wrote those...right? you are like a tanka ninja!

 

[NivKay]

no way you just wrote those...right? you are like a tanka ninja!

Hahaha!! I just followed your instructions - 5/7/5/7/7. and went from there...I'm no ninja....just a fellow traveller!!

 

[Jocelyn_Nicole_Sawyer]

Hahaha!! I just followed your instructions - 5/7/5/7/7. and went from there...I'm no ninja....just a fellow traveller!!

so why did you flip me on to my back? and am now drinking honey from my navel??

 

[WCSGarland]

so why did you flip me on to my back? and am now drinking honey from my navel??

I missed something... since when is honey crimson?

 

[NivKay]

so why did you flip me on to my back? and am now drinking honey from my navel??

I think you've lost me...

 

[AlinaX]

Shy? Grey eyes? I'm yours!

A full-moon personal ad

 

[Jocelyn_Nicole_Sawyer]

Shy? Grey eyes? I'm yours!
A full-moon personal ad

 

[Jocelyn_Nicole_Sawyer]

add a line to above... or start a new Tanka by writing the first line... or share a whole poem. anything goes!

 

[AlinaX]

couples by the wall
eyes glittering with hunger
the orgy is ripe
who will be first to sink teeth
into soft welcoming flesh

 

[Jocelyn_Nicole_Sawyer]

I love "welcoming" there... like, one of them realizes what the other needs...

 

[Jocelyn_Nicole_Sawyer]

Saw a kissing scene
can't remember the movie
I was mesmerized
So young, but still old enough
to learn about real hunger...

 

[WCSGarland]

She sang of desire,
Such a pretty, pretty tease,
Little did I know,
The promises of delight?
Not for me, but another.

 

[Voboy]

Retreating lover
Sadly betrayed on the grass:
Leaves crunch underfoot
In the fall, but not springtime;
Waterlogged leaves don't tattle.

For all who've ever snuck out the window...

 

[NivKay]

Soft the ev’ning falls,
Like feathered goodbyes waving
And in the silent
Hours of the glooming night shroud
I mark your dissolution

 

[NivKay]

The night you took flight
The owls sang our liebestod
The clocks kept singing
Their soulful prothalamion
And the streets had lost their names

 

[AlinaX]

The OED has prothalamium, derived from Spenser's Prothalamion, but wow, what an awesome word.

 

[NivKay]

It is, is t it?? I could say it all day, over and over!! Haha!! I only discovered it when I read Angela Carter’s short story remake of Little red riding hood . Her story is called ‘The Company of wolves’

 

[NivKay]

Tell them I will leave
All behind, the sky, the sea
The sun’s warm kisses
To hold one moment with you
To feel my heart’s tender death

 

[NivKay]

tomorrow will come
And you will long be drifting
Upon the seas of
My forgetting, I confess,
I confess my faithlessness

 

[Razzyricho]

Nature's glories call,
Will my pursuit be enough?
Timeless tales endure,
Yet I chase, unyielding heart,
Never to surrender hope.