Tag Archives: Tanka

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pooch, go away now
i know you crave attention
(cannot feel my arms…)
i’m open to your absence
happy to be anywhere

by TONY SINGLE
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her bulwark

inert, like grey stone
inside a ribbed dewar cage
she was all heart once
the drub and thrum of seasons
now preserved for the next world

by TONY SINGLE
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the piscean age

a fish shaped pillow
thrown to the secondhand shore
gasps amid rubbish
and nobody really cares
it’s an endangered species

by TETIANA ALEKSINA
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DOLLY MIXTURE (With Love to Women) // A Jelly Bean Tanka

we are pretty sure
venus doesn’t want a riot
when she spins clockwise
mixing up her left and right
how very like a woman

by TETIANA ALEKSINA & TONY SINGLE
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guttersnipe

a big heavy cloud
that hangs out above your head
it’s a speech balloon
that’s crammed full with jumbled text
rubbish you shot from your mouth

by TETIANA ALEKSINA
© All rights reserved 2021