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Category Archives: Tanka

Fairy

03 Monday Dec 2018

Posted by Bill Bisgood in ., Blogs I Like, poem, Poetry, Tanka

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baking, cheesecake, fairy, fear, food, fun, humor, humour, poetry, tanka

On the tribulations of baking, a Tanka

Baking a cheesecake.
Despite a few successes
(photographs to prove)
there’s always that nagging fear
the cake crack fairy will strike

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Killed

08 Saturday Sep 2018

Posted by Bill Bisgood in ., nature, poem, Poetry, Tanka, Thoughts

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death, hunters, pathos, pheasants, poetry, sadness, shooting, tanka

On the welsh roadsides
windblown feathers of pheasants
mown down by traffic
Hunters robbed of their victims
Unconscionable pathos

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Beans

28 Monday May 2018

Posted by Bill Bisgood in ., humour, seasons, Tanka, Thoughts

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beans, childhood, gardening, grandfather, happiness, memories, poetry, tanka

On feeling nostalgic (Tanka)

planting runner beans
memories of fun childhood
grandfather’s garden
as fast as he put them in
I managed to take them out

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Evening

23 Wednesday May 2018

Posted by Bill Bisgood in ., Blogs I Like, nature, poem, Poetry, Tanka, Thoughts

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birds, birdsong, blackbirds, Jupiter, nature, poetry, stars, tanka, Venus

On enjoying a quiet moment
(Tanka)

Pale blue evening, stars
Venus and Jupiter shine
before moon rises.
A blackbird, the last songbird’s
sweet voice in the fading light.

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Promise

06 Sunday May 2018

Posted by Bill Bisgood in ., Blogs I Like, poem, Poetry, seasons, Tanka

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bees, blackcurrants, flowers, fruit, garden, nature, poem, poetry, pollen, promise, summer, tanka

On watching bees indulge   (Tanka)

Blackcurrant flowers
Unassuming little blooms
Beloved by the bees
Promise of rich summer fruits
Blackbirds must wait for their haul

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asleep

02 Wednesday May 2018

Posted by Bill Bisgood in ., Blogs I Like, nature, poem, Poetry, Tanka, Thoughts

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ammonite, France, geology, jurassic, poem, poetry, tnka

On considering a rock   (Tanka)

In a lane in France
I once found an ammonite
wrapped in brown sandstone
its warm, salty seas long dried.
Does it dream jurassic dreams?

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new love

22 Friday Dec 2017

Posted by Bill Bisgood in ., Blogs I Like, poem, Poetry, Tanka, Thoughts

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Australia, drinking, humour, poem, poetry, relationships, shiraz, tanka, wine

(tragic tanka)

I’m with my new love
an Australian shiraz
we get on so well
but it may not last for long
she has that empty feeling

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Silence

05 Thursday Oct 2017

Posted by Bill Bisgood in ., Blogs I Like, Haiku, poem, Poetry, Tanka

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bus, children, haiku, poetry, school.street, silence

Morning, ten past eight
school bus harvests  the children
suddenly, silence

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Calm

14 Tuesday Mar 2017

Posted by Bill Bisgood in ., Blogs I Like, Haiku, photography, poem, Poetry, Tanka

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English Channel, Folkestone, France, haiku, music, photograph, photography, sea, weather

Folkestone Harbour

Dusk, sea flat calm
In the distance, France
Minimalistic

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from a chance meeting

05 Saturday Nov 2016

Posted by Bill Bisgood in ., Blogs I Like, poem, Tanka

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baleen whale, humpback, love, nature, tanka, whale

(for a change, a tanka)

on a blue black sea
my heart was gently stolen
by a humpback whale
rising from the holy deep
to stare into my bare soul

 

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