a time of waiting
winter’s yet to loose its grasp
grey sky holds its breath
a piercing shaft of sunlight
hinting at hope not yet lost
A tanka to anticipate the imminent arrival of spring
A time of waiting
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Beach walk
A bracing beach walk:
sand and shingle alternate,
scrunch joins surf’s roar.
Lone seagull mews overhead;
breezes cool my heated brain.
A tanka in remembrance of a recent holiday
Vaccines work
Just when things look up
there’s a virus variant,
but hope’s downward turn
reverses when the boffins
say the vaccines still work fine.
This coronaverse tanka is brought to you by the letter V.
Tanka spillage
Bosherston lily ponds, Pembrokeshire
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A truncated tanka from the spam poetry archives. Tanka lines traditionally have this pattern of syllables, 5-7-5-7-7, but our poet ran out of inspiration, metaphorically clogging blue sky views
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