On Patriot's Day holiday in Massachusetts

PATRIOT’S DAY TANKA
In Menotomy
seventeen seventy five,
the first real battle —
Revolutionary War
troops marching back from Concord.

One of the first battles occurred here in Arlington (Menotomy).

#tanka #tankapoem #haiku #haikupoem #senryu #poetry

Reply to #Nietzsche

Supposing that Truth
is neither woman nor man
but a mix of both
then a trans person may
come closest to its attainment

#tankaThursday #tanka

hot summers
of my youth spent outside
—no iphones or tablets
spitting watermelon seeds
was way cool back then

#TankaThursday cool #TankaPoem #micropoetry

the cool murkiness
of a primeval forest
the path obscured
and yet she blindly enters
trusting the dark once again

#tanka #TankaThursday

Optimistic sunbeams
sift through the cool fog
iridescent blooms arise
orchards brim with nectar
spring's lush investiture.

#vss365 #tanka #poetry #BSPP52 #inkmine #tankathursday #vssfantasy #poem #nature #writing #skypoets

#tanka for #TankaThursday <cool> prompt

my knee needs:
an ice block wrapped in a towel
would be cool
I need to look after
my health & well being

23:05, 15th April 2026
Hoping to finalise another one.

windows flung open
cool morning air rushes in
with birdsong
I trade this spring
for drying of my tears

Fatma Zohra Habis

#TankaThursday #tankapoem #inkMine #poetry #cool

A Tanka by Paul Vincent Cannon

Photo: found on tumblr.com Form: Tanka (5-7-5-7-7) lovers paradoxreal quantum mystery thermodynamicstwisted to its oppositeswe’re very cool when we’re hot Copyright 2026 ©️Paul Vincent CannonAll Rights Reserved ®️ Originally posted for #TankaThursday - Cool

well-done 👏🏼

First time on a #plane
#mighty #cool #signature flight
started full of fright
til the bar cart was in sight
gin's #trickery set it right

#thingstowriteabout
#emoetry
#TankaThursday
#WIPSnips
#vss365
#tanka

silence is golden
when lies were softly spoken
with cool comportment;
unsuspected treachery
revealed plans as fantasy

#inkmine #tanka #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry

cool river flows by
knocked over five-stone cairn
no longer guarding
like me letting my guard down
after hiding for so long

#TankaThursday #NaTankaMo #tanka #WildWalkPrompt #poetry #writing

#tankapoem, #tankathursday

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tanka weekly #poetry challenge

April 16, 2026

this week’s prompt:

cool

write a tanka using prompt & include hashtag #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry

#tanka resources to develop your practice:

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dogwood branch at the glass
the one bud that opened —
the rest still waiting

#haiku

A summer sunset on the east coast from ten years ago. Two gull birds silhouetted on a gray sky with a dark red hazy sun over deep blue wavy ocean waters.The sun has turned the clouds a marigold color.

A new Monday BlueSky friends.

May your week be filled with opportunities to make a wonderful memory. Remember there are many beautiful things still free in our world. Enjoy!

Offer a helping hand to someone in need if possible. Be a beautiful moment in a life.

#BlueSkyMonday #PhotoShareMonday

roadkill—
executive order 256
Ding Dongs for everyone

#senryusunday #senryu #haiku #rfk #vss365 #nokings #haiku #blueskypoets

unseen
I jump into the puddle
rainy day fund

#SenryuSunday #senryu #3lines #micropoetry

THE TIBETAN GOAT. The fleece of this goat and even The golden one that Jason labored for Are worth nothing when compared To the hair that I’m in love with.

LA CHÈVRE DU THIBET. [A woodcut by Raoul Dufy] Les poils de cette chèvre et même Ceux d’or pour qui prit tant de peine Jason, ne valent rien au prix Des cheveux dont je suis épris.

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜

feel free to share small poems you wrote, or ones you love by other poets :)

here’s Guillaume Apollinaire from his Bestiary, translated by Lauren Shakely, w/accompanying woodcut by Raoul Dufy~

“I know I’m American because when I walk into a room something dies.”

#SundaySentence from “Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying” by Noor Hindi (@noorhindi.bsky.social)

Via Read a Little Poem on Facebook. @readalittlepoem.bsky.social

#SmallPoemSunday
#Poetry #NationalPoetryMonth #poem

I Confess - Allison Luterman I stalked her in the grocery store: her crown of snowy braids held in place by a great silver clip, her erect bearing, radiating tenderness, watching the way she placed yogurt and avocados in her basket, beaming peace like the North Star. I wanted to ask, "What aisle did you find your serenity in, do you know how to be married for fifty years or how to live alone, excuse me for interrupting, but you seem to possess some knowledge that makes the earth turn and burn on its axis-" But we don't request such things from strangers nowadays. So I said, "I love your hair."

#nationalpoetrymonth #poem #writingcommunity #poetry
#smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

I’ve not heard of a riddle poem format. Cool. 😉 Tomb raider?

Here’s a response to this week’s theme of #cool from #TankaThursday- it also uses the form of an Anglo-Saxon #riddle poem. Thanks to @evecastle.bsky.social for hosting.

#tanka #tankapoem #fivelines #poet #poetrycommunity

For #Stunday, a March 16th photo of a floating tree in a flooded reservoir.

Each element is a mirror image of itself: tree, sky, banks.

#ECK

Sunset in a Minnesota summer night.

Sunset in a Minnesota summer evening
#Nature
#Minnesota

wildness came calling
and shook me from sleep

voices singing moonsongs
dancing footfalls

running creekside with rushing water
their cries of Spring

pulled me from deep slumber
and for a moment

I rose to sing a wilding chorus
and rejoice at the sound

“I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.”

—Yann Martel, Author, Life of Pi
#quote

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Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 18-APR-26 is:

Wiggle & Plant

#Prompt

#OurPoetryX @ourpoetryx.bsky.social