Tanka Poem

[NivKay]

On some withdrawn street,
It's blackened conscience trampled
By insistent feet,
I think of all the sordid
faces I have yet to face

 

[NivKay]

See, the river flows,
it's nectared stream a beacon
For my burrowed pulse,
And soon the night must drown, down
Into Tartarus I sink

 

[Booboobear84]

eroticism
is no stranger to poems
just ask Rabbie Burns
we Scots know to part the words
and slip the meat between 'em

Mr. Burns headed the English Department of my high school few men were his equal:

The good is but the
Guinea stamp, a man’s a man
For that. Mr Burns wrote
Upon my Yearbook quoting
Robert Burns Quite ironic

 

[NivKay]

Tender is the bud
That burns and yearns for my touch,
It's petals unfold
like phoenix incandescent
burning like the flames of Orc

 

[Annelih]

Bud...petals...burning like the flames of Orc...I detect a nod to William Blake?

 

[Annelih]

Mr. Burns headed the English Department of my high school few men were his equal:

The good is but the
Guinea stamp, a man’s a man
For that. Mr Burns wrote
Upon my Yearbook quoting
Robert Burns Quite ironic

"Ae fond kiss, and then we sever;
Ae fareweel, and then forever!"

Swoon!

 

[UsuallyPresent]

Ba-bump, the heart goes
Ba-bump, pushing wet red blood
Ba-bump, driving life
Ba-bump, waving moments past
Ba-bump, ba-bump. Bump. bump. Ba-

 

[Annelih]

I see her shimmer
in concupiscent madness,
Crepuscular eyes,
which cross and cross across my
Mind, Vesuvius rises

"cross and cross across..." Someone's been reading T S Eliot

 

[WCSGarland]

Click, click go the keys,
Across the screen go my words,
Weaving sordid tale,
Will they another reader's
Questing eyes, tease and seduce?

 

[NivKay]

"cross and cross across..." Someone's been reading T S Eliot

Guilty as charged...I mean...that sibilance...Surely I am excused, Madame Professor?

 

[Annelih]

You're forgiven...now you should try a bit of Auden...I dare you..

 

[NivKay]

Bud...petals...burning like the flames of Orc...I detect a nod to William Blake?

Yes!!! You good...!!!

 

[Annelih]

You know me, you do,
You know all my ways my days
My trembling hunger,
My terrible apetite
My hollow vessels, ripe, sweet.

 

[AlinaX]

daily exercise
legs spread wide and lips parted
machine on standby
don't forget the camera
because pleasure should be shared

 

[UsuallyPresent]

Staring from across
the road, into her windows
deliberately
left clear of rude obstructions
spices up the next play time

 

[EllenMore]

I hear my sister
with her lover in the night
and I cannot sleep
my fingers are no comfort
even the owls sound lonely

 

[WCSGarland]

How much should I bare?
When all I want is to hide?
Sequestered and safe,
Anonymous and unknown,
Despite my need for solace.

 

[Jocelyn_Nicole_Sawyer]

I adore your thumbs
crafted to windshield-wipe
away all my tears

and now I need the final 2 lines -- so I was thinking...each of you brings your own unique talents and I've super appreciated all of it. seems to me if the poem generates some emotion: a chuckle, a guffaw, a tear, a longing, excitement, arousal, etc. then each will have real merit.

Anyway...if y'all would indulge me... at least this one time

I don't think I've set anyone up for failure-- if I have then feel free to just keep my first line or at least the motif of "thumbs"

 

[WCSGarland]

I adore your thumbs
crafted to windshield-wipe
away all my tears

and now I need the final 2 lines -- so I was thinking...each of you brings your own unique talents and I've super appreciated all of it. seems to me if the poem generates some emotion: a chuckle, a guffaw, a tear, a longing, excitement, arousal, etc. then each will have real merit.

Anyway...if y'all would indulge me... at least this one time

I don't think I've set anyone up for failure-- if I have then feel free to just keep my first line or at least the motif of "thumbs"

I adore your thumbs
crafted to windshield-wipe
away all my tears
turn them on intermittent
I'll cry when least expected

 

[UsuallyPresent]

I adore your thumbs
crafted to windshield-wipe
away all my tears

Via our virtual keyboards
Across all the miles apart

 

[Annelih]

I adore your thumbs
crafted to windshield-wipe
away all my tears

Or if tears are none, fill my
Nethers with their fullness, do!

 

[NivKay]

Or if tears are none, fill my
Nethers with their fullness, do!

Nethers!!!

 

[AlinaX]

I adore your thumbs
crafted to windshield-wipe
away all my tears

tell your new wife I keep them
in memory of true love

Or:

would that they could wield a whip
to punish lost syllables

 

[UsuallyPresent]

Eternal is night,
Whenever not hidden by
Light's laggard passage.
Night always leads and follows,
Wherever light's not present.
Hidden, covered, not erased.

 

[WCSGarland]

I stretch all of you,
taking control of your limbs,
and though you resist,
you only fight your pleasure,
and end up begging for more.