Tag: tanka
group name: poetsnook
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February 12, 2008 12:44 AM EST --
Poems are dead leaves
Waiting where their bodies fall
Twisted by their fates--
Brought forth to live by poets'
Understanding hearts and minds
Copyright 2008 Jim Ross
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March 04, 2007 07:10 PM EST --
Twenty pigeons pecked
Leaves piled for winter's compost,
Yellow beaks bobbing
With hope for a wormy meal
You knew lay squirming beneath
Copyright 2007 Jim Ross
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July 28, 2007 12:33 AM EDT --
Perspiration drips
From a face finished with work;
Emotionless eyes
Brighten at her blithe spirit--
Joy in a three year old's jump!
Copyright 2007 Jim Ross
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September 05, 2007 12:40 PM EDT --
Watch the coffee brew--
Bubbles start to percolate,
Ideas in heat
Rising in volume to burst
And reveal what lays ahead
Copyright 2007 Jim Ross
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October 21, 2007 06:55 PM EDT --
I can put my collection in a box
When I compose a picture of its time;
I can take the collection out and gaze
At the contrast between then and today—
Or of the kindred times between themselves; . . . more
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February 08, 2008 11:20 AM EST --
Rides beneath the stars
Do not always announce war--
Star-spray above me
Dazzles my eyes with this peace--
Heaven's treat passing 'til dawn.
Copyright 2008 Jim Ross
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February 18, 2008 12:04 AM EST --
Still night descends clear;
Wraps, snug about cold shoulders;
Music sweeps across
A sea of upturned faces
Ready for the spectacle
Tinker bell circles
The Sleeping Beauty castle
As a million . . . more
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February 27, 2008 11:15 AM EST --
Two Cats' Prey (double Tanka)
While trying to type
Something darts by my window.
Half hooded green eyes,
Intent on cat's prey, she leaps.
But misses, . . . more
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January 30, 2008 10:08 PM EST --
Close your eyes and see
Your friends as they used to be
Before life claimed them--
Drove them away from your side,
As it drove you far from them.
Listen to laughter,
The high pitched squeals . . . more
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August 06, 2007 04:09 PM EDT --
Cool breezes find nooks
With beasties panting in heat
And grant them respite;
Even their hunter sits now
Beneath the oak and breathes deep
Copyright 2007 Jim Ross
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August 14, 2007 09:33 PM EDT --
Shapes move in the dark,
Lend subtle fear to night peace--
Oak leaves scratch themselves,
A twig snaps; snuffles erupt
And Trace appears with a snort
Copyright 2007 Jim Ross
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December 18, 2007 04:45 AM EST --
Suffused cumulus
Precipitates the first drop
To flip a crisp leaf
Copyright 2007 Jim Ross
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February 26, 2008 04:08 PM EST --
The wise gardener
Knows how a garden should grow.
The wise lover, too,
Uses same ingredients —
Mysterious elements.
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February 05, 2008 01:00 AM EST --
Frigid air smites me
When I lift the canvas flap
It demands a spasm
From pampered, assaulted skin
And a squint to see past white
Copyright 2008 Jim Ross
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January 10, 2008 01:25 PM EST --
Dancing together
flowing across Earth's surface
like a symphony
inspiring the colors
made by the water and wind
Water and Wind painting by Anne . . . more
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December 14, 2007 06:29 PM EST --
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March 19, 2007 01:37 AM EDT --
Dwindling snow defiled
With youthful exuberance,
Digging and tamping
A snowman of any size--
Quick, before the last snow melts!
Copyright 2007 Jim Ross
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May 01, 2007 02:41 AM EDT --
The adobe stills
As musicians leave to rest;
Guttering candles
Shadow walls and instruments
Left to listen to murmurs
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September 28, 2007 06:06 PM EDT --
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October 13, 2007 05:43 PM EDT --
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