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how lovely. :)
In ancient landscapes
Celebration could live well
In citizens minds
They drank with pleasure, adored
Sensation, knew ways of love.
Topic: Reflection
(I liked your tanka, AP. Do you think celebration does not live in deep in the soul anymore? Perhaps you are right. To much party on the surface- to little joy in celebration. Have you read the lyrics to An die freude?
And thank you, Amuse. Glad you liked it.)
Reflection:
It brings the sky down
this pond here in my garden
mirror blue and white.
Contemplating clouds in grass
I reflect pond reflect sky.
(Darn- miscalculated the second line. Changed it. Now it´s better.)
forum
A conversation
between the computer screens.
The distance cannot
protect us from the anger
that lures in our hearts and souls.
(I am not talking about this forum)
I am not sure if I am allowed to change topic, but I'll do it anyway. I know that I should do another tanka to the topic I said but I am too lazy for that.
The reason why I changed topic is that I heard a song today. A really sad one.
So the new topic is: "Dying language"
Kernow lost its tongue
Some two centuries ago
Singing sea shanties
Voices from the harbour told
Of a language they once lived
Topic: Lourdes
Sixty-six they say
The ‘authentic miracles’
Performed at the shrine
Millions have attended
Might as well play lotteries
Topic: sunshine
The sun is shining
Life forces its way through earth
towards the divine light.
In a few days all of it
will be burnt and dead . Desert.
Topic: temptation
My biology
Says go for it, while you can!
My psychology
Agrees. My society
Frowns. To whom should I listen?
Topic: Perseverance
Perseverance
I'll pick seeds today
of plants that will be gone soon,
as will I be gone.
But my children's children shall
plant them when there's peace in world.
If you don't understand, then maybe you should know that native americans have collected seeds of plants that have died out by now so that when all this is over, they can start living normally again.
New topic: Imagination
Away with the sword,
the dragon, and the damsel
Come away with me
over seas of white and blue
and mountains of candy cane
next: hope
The wreckage, the loss,
The pain, the vacuum, the waste.
The things that remain
Remind us of sorrows past
And hopes that are now living.
Topic: dreams
rainbow hued figure
eights rest horizontally
above laden vines
a small miracle is this,
no, compared with blissful days?
topic:
gender
So what is gender?
A physical attribute?
Social condition?
I would like it to be known
That I'm an individual.
Topic: art
White feathers, clear sky
blue letters on white paper
to paint the picture
all reverse and far from true
yet in your mind a gull soars.
Topic: revelation
Colour happiness
Paints a beautiful disguise
To the beholder:
Mind cosmetically lights up
Nature's esoteric face.
Topic: laughter
sounds of glee do float
enchanting the infant me
a smile broadens
to splash upon the ears of
elevated clowns dancing
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fishing
ooh, i likeQuote:
Originally Posted by chmpman
She suspends a hook,
Floats just below the surface,
A smile is her bait
Her well-rehearsed elegance
Soon catches the compliment
Topic: Noise
Clamour from afar
A mysterious punch of
Sounds that do dispel
The notion of solitude
In a room without windows
Topic: technology
The screech of metal,
Ching ching ching...the machine moves,
Heartless at best and-
Under a complete logic,
Nothing should be a problem.
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dancing
Bare feet move with grace
An accordion holds you
As you silently
Stride across the busy stage
An object of lost desire
Topic: energy
Consuming fuel
To give rise to man's ill-thought
Creations of doom.
Delusions of grandeur; God
In the spark of matchless light.
(unsure how many syllables in fuel)
topic: fertility
In the doctor's,
He looks distrested and fearful,
Then he says those words-
"You have had a a miscarriage,
I'm truly sorry." Sorrow
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sight
Wipe optical lens....
Steady the arm and hand now...
Press the smooth trigger...
The bullet screams through his eye
Scarlet and white, light, darkness.
Topic: A modern piece of architecture
Wide swoops of plastic
Of no apparent structure
Giving question to
Our former meaning of form
Illogical spanse of art.
Topic: sandcastles
Nude in the sand dunes
Dreams of days of innocence
Castles built upon
Sun-trapped hollows, ideals
Of a return to Nature.
Topic: Chess
War fought by mind's eye
Intellect not brawn to prove
The persistence of
Man's character in peril.
Does 'the king is dead' mean death?
Topic: (good) Cinema
Seeing as how this hasn't been responded to for a while now feel free to choose your own topic if you don't like mine. Or maybe I just have no life and am too impatient. Oh well, whatever.
The boy grew up and
Fled the village; the old man:
And made his future.
But the name that the world knew
Couldn't save the cinema.
Topic: debt
Marked soldiers on a
Collision course make war,
Fighting to be the
Heir of plundered goods; taken
As banker's greedy reproach.
Topic: jealousy/envy
Could somebody be
Envious of lifestyles
I experienced?
And yet no-one has a life
That I would prefer to live.
Subject: the unforeseen dangers of benevolence
Giving cannot be
Without a present given
Which present, when passed
Preserves a past presently
Deforming its own moment
droplets on a glass that had contained lemonade
The child licks the glass
catching droplets lemon sweet
wanting evrything
I sit in the autumn sun
catching the last of the light.
Next subject - hedgehog
Pliny the Elder
Tells how hedgehogs would climb trees
Knocking down apples:
They would spear them with their spikes
A picnic upon their backs.
Next subject: Sunshine in Winter
The light on the snow
Stabbed at her eyes with gold shards
And she crashed softly
A white eiderdown coldly
Crumbling at the bumper
next: black specks
Cool idea for a creative game. Hope mine is alright to add. Got the idea off blps "coffee spoons"
black specks:
black pods next to blades
slicing to specks of same shade
make into dawns delight
give me comfort from long night
caffine fix I savor thee
Next subject: Book Spine
Pleasing crisp or creased
Vertical, horizontal
That profane shrine of
Adventurous exploits
That heed your strength.
moss covered tree
Colours stain lichen,
A down covers trees and earth
It fades from lush green
To a sedate grey. The moss
Finger deep, as soft as snow.
Somewhere without cars
The summit is reached,
I see no cars, no houses,
no roads, no people.
Looking up, a vapour trail,
Spoils the moment - Piss off plane!
Embarrassment at saying the wrong thing.
absolutely beautiful, AP.Quote:
Originally Posted by atiguhya padma
embarrassment at saying the wrong thing:
Red-faced and abashed,
I trip over thoughtlessness:
"Constant Idiot!"
I retreat to lick my wounds,
Self-inflicted as usual.
a fat child, like Augustus Gloop from Willy Wonka.