Fairy

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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

Killed

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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

Beans

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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

Evening

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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.

Promise

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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

new love

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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

from a chance meeting

Tags

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

 

tanka – oak

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fire, oak, smoke, tanka, time, wood, years

Through this length of oak
whorls, twists, turns of passing time
mark long years, short lives.
Clean flame, with pale blue-grey smoke
all drifting gently skyward.

 

(first tanka)