Japanese Tanka game

Endless rolling hills
Nature's green, rapeseed yellow.
Everything so slow
People moan of how things change
Crazy old-fashioned people

Topic: Serendipity

prometheus lit
a blaze you arrived when i
was busy elsewhere.
if my car hadn't broken
down, if you hadn't passed by...

bells

Sundays, deathdays, days
Of general celebration
Marriage days, burial days
The bells sound out loud
A lost language, long since dead.

Topic: laziness

The black leather couch
Lends me its ceaseless embrace.
But time matters not,
For all who enter this realm
Experience nirvana.

New sub...
.:BLISS:.

^^My First Tanka^^^
2nd Serious Poem in My Life... EVER.

Silence surrounds me,
Cool and soft and breathable.
The weight hovers light.
Whisper-drunk with the stillness
of my grey before their dawn.

TOPIC -- a familiar stranger

wow... tough subject....

The sunlight glistens,
Dancing on the water's edge.
A feeling so foreign.
Now here we are, face to face,
The light and I, strangers now.

How about something along the lines of blindness?

Malthus will prove right.
When the oil runs dry, we will
Let more people starve.
This overloaded planet,
Where our blindness procreates.

Topic: Mischief

caramba my dog
n me on the road
what mischief today, me look at him
he just smiles n say
you did it last time, now is my turn

topic: one day flower

The petals emerge,
No longer afraid of light.
Delicate moments.
The night will bring the end, though,
As this beauty cannot last.

Sorry... how about moving (away, from one house to another... something like that.)

i smell the curtains
"oofff.. no we r not taking these"
"is there anything we r taking?"
Death, he take me whole
am moving to his beguiling mansion

sure, u can take abt rebirth now

Hehe. Thanks, rocksea. ;) :D (Oh, but by the way, in this thread we're trying to stay with syllables of 5-7-5-7-7 for our poems.)

Sink into the dark
soft whiteness of a cool bed
stiff joints come undone.
Not the sun's dawn, but the moon,
Refreshes my dying soul.

TOPIC -- faking confidence

woohh!! got it!! thanxalott emily.. :) did i get it proper here?

the wind southerly
i stand along the footpath
grin, a cyclist
kernel of life opening by
i have to do, i will do


now what?
ya it is the next topic..:D

Perfect. :D I like it, rocksea.

I came here for you,
Standing before the abyss
Will you catch me if...?
I ran here with my eyes closed
You alone know what comes next

TOPIC -- Being lost.

you already got lost. shud be saved!! ;)

hanging some wet clothes
i sing an old song awhile
went down memory lane
a wind lost its way back home
wet my soul, dry all the clothes

see, the wind got lost but u r saved :D

topic : i want to know what someone will do with a tissue paper