A Manifesto.
You met the kindest people with my tanka.
poem by Nicolas Grenier
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Laughing Hyena
Tanka (Happiness))
The Old are happier
Than miserable young people
Who fret about ageing
And since the old are happier
Will they laughingly expire?
poem by Oskar Hansen
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Gay people are the sweetest, kindest, most artistic, warmest and most thoughtful people in the world. And since the beginning of time all they've ever been is kicked.
quote by Little Richard
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My dad's probably one of the kindest people in the world. When I was younger that's not how I was- I was a little spoiled brat.
quote by Leonardo DiCaprio
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I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure.
quote by Kenneth Branagh
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A Hiking To Top!
Haiku or Tanka
Which do you think poetry
Hiking ideas top fast?
poem by Ramesh T A
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Shy poem
She has been seen with
He who for my sake hurts her
Go then.My little tanka
I send my deep sympathy.But
To love's arms don't invite
poem by Ngaka Motaung
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Wake Within Your Dreams
Wake within your dreams
For there lies reality.
Living the unlived
Makes real your aspirations.
All things are dreams beginning.
(A Tanka)
poem by Lynn W. Petty
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We're a nation of liars. But I mean that in the kindest sense.
quote by Neil Cavuto
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Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best.
The Way Of Tyrants
The Way of Tyrants (Tanka)
Red nosed circus clowns
Behind mad grins… hate the laugher
As with dictators
In absurd fantasy uniforms
We hoot only when they fall.
Tyrant in his cave
Resentfully reflects on life
Western big shots came
Ate roasted lambs in his tent
How could he be so gullible?
poem by Oskar Hansen
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Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.
quote by Samuel Richardson
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New Admiring Fan
read all your writ poems
previously site posted
all your haiku tanka posted
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enjoyed by reader poets
sweet scenic verse poems
poem by Terence George Craddock
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
quote by Harrison Ford
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
quote by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Inspired by Issa - Prayers
all the lotuses
aides in
my prayers
tanka:
the lotuses have fully
bloomed to
embrace the sky
like my heart after the
dawn prayers
blossomed
inspired by
this day-
even stirring gruel
is a prayer!
-Issa,1814
http: //cat.xula.edu/issa/
poem by John Tiong Chunghoo
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Where as gold is the kindest of all hosts when it shines in the sky, it comes an evil guest unto those that receive it in their hand.
quote by Simondes of Ceos
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School Daze
butterfly jumper
thai yellow shoes
rhythm and rhyme
gave us the clues
words with a reason
passionate hues
snapshots of feeling
images in blue
it takes real talent
possessed by so few
to write something cool
in a couplet or two
or a japanese tanka
french cinquain or haiku
poem by Frances Macaulay Forde
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Death Is Theatrical?
I just murmured;
'Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf'
and looked around in the theater.
Then an unknown person I found
seated behind me
and he was told;
'You have come to know me soon
And I am your native humble funeral caretaker
Barney Raymond's representative in the States
Very helpful to the downtrodden.
Burial could be in the motherland with all the rituals
and your known people.
Not to to worry about the expences and we have our own flights
like a rocket your corpses reach there and the *kindest President
will be there for the ceremony? '
I was really scared for the last night's nightmare.
poem by Nimal Dunuhinga
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Poetic Style and Form
Forty words:
Monday is Haiku day
Tuesday is Nonet
Wednesday I write Rictameter
Thursday Triolet
Friday is my Tanka day
But Saturday's the best
Because I write a Sonnet
A literary quest...
Then I face Sunday's challenge:
'Forty Words' the final test.
poem by Joyce Hemsley
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I think scent is one of the kindest things in the world. It ignores age, colour, creed and size. It is non-judgemental. In just a few drops we become equal.
quote by Roja Dove
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