Tanka Poem

A girl seeks answers,
Is seduced for her troubles,
Embraces her lust,
Now satisfied in body,
Still, her mind remains afire.

Queries unfulfilled,
By the storm of coital bliss,
Her thoughts rebounding,
Girl gathers herself anew,
And returns to her desire.
 
Hate gnaws at the bones
frostbitten by memory—
love, a hearth once lit,
crackles in the silent dark,
ash and ember war for breath.
 
Hate gnaws at the bones
frostbitten by memory—
love, a hearth once lit,
crackles in the silent dark,
ash and ember war for breath.



Love hums through the cracks
where hate once sowed bitter roots—
tender shoots push through,
sun-warmed and unapologetic,
turning graveyards into fields.
 
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