For #TankaThursday
tanka weekly #poetry challenge April 9, 2026
this week’s prompt: troll
write a tanka using prompt & include hashtag #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry
With much thanks to @evecastle.bsky.social
tanka: troubled souls
…
the trolls are coming
run to the East, find the Sun
where light from darkness
turning ignorance to stone
releases clarity to troubled souls
…
#TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry #troll
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tanka weekly #poetry challenge
April 9, 2026
this week’s prompt:
troll
write a tanka using prompt & include hashtag #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry
#tanka resources to develop your practice:
tankasocietyofamerica.org
Tanka Society of America
www.tankasocietyofamerica.org
TANKA
Imagine: You hold
a mug of sizzling coffee
start to take a sip —
All of a sudden you sneeze.
(these days, we're all being burnt).
#WIPsnips mug #micropoetry #tanka #tankapoem #haiku
#senryu #blueskypoets #poetrycommunity #coffee #politics
the heady scent
of a night-blooming cereus
disrupts my dream . . .
if you do not return soon
I will mourn this flower’s death
—Syrah’s Menon Roychowdhury, USA
Editor’s choice #waka from Waka Society of America, 2025 Premier Edition, Waka in English
#micropoetry #tankapoem #poetry
TANKA
Clothes in my closet
I rarely put on, feelings
they hold I’d rather
not don, the longing, the grief
of wearing... a memory.
#2wordprompt memory #tanka #tankapoem #haiku
#senryu #micropoetry #poetry #poetrycommunity #grief
TANKA
I am not a fan
of pingpong conversations.
Individual
sports allow us to take turns,
take our time, fully present.
#sensewrds 205 conversations
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#micropoetry #poetry #poetrycommunity #communication
#relationships #inspiration
by an old tomb
a magpie's eggs
begin to crack
all those promises
I made last New Year
Fatma Zohra Habis
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#tanka
maundy thursday
in the hen shack
no eggs
while the moon wanes
rooster crows
#TankaThursday #eggs
#DailyHaikuPrompt #waning
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For #TankaThursday
Tanka weekly #poetry challenge April 2, 2026
this week’s prompt: egg
write a tanka using prompt & include hashtag #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry
With much thanks to @evecastle.bsky.social
two eggs oozing into
a slice of toast at Breakfast
over and around
two at midday with sardines
watched by children through window panes
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#eggs #poverty #children
TANKA
My television
says “No signal”. I cannot
watch. My to-do list
is full of difficult tasks.
I do not move. No signal.
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#poetry #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets #poem
tanka weekly #poetry challenge
April 2, 2026
this week’s prompt:
egg
write a tanka using prompt & include hashtag #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry
#tanka resources to develop your practice:
tankasocietyofamerica.org
Tanka Society of America
www.tankasocietyofamerica.org
TANKA
What happens to you,
Body, when we live on screen,
leaving you behind?
We don’t notice you until
you scream for our attention.
#tanka #tankapoem #haiku #senryu #micropoetry
#poetry #poetrycommunity #inkmine #body #listening
TANKA (corrected)
My mind, like a tree
branching far and wide, weakly
rooted in the ground,
calls to me: It's time that you
listen to your body's cries.
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#poetry #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets #body
TANKA
My mind, like a tree
branching far and wide, weakly
rooted in the ground,
calls to me. It's that you you
listen to your body's cries.
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#poetry #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets #body
azure and beige scarf
created by knots in string
crocheted with passion
this is her Zen, mind gets lost
as hands loop yarn like magic
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TANKA
Your image was sketched
in my memory. Details
fading with the years.
Holding you, unseen, within
my heart, you are still with me.
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#poetry #blueskypoets #inkmine #memory #grief
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#memory #computers
(A kyoka is a humorous tanka)
a shell necklace
every knot tight
against time
he said he love me
not enough to loose his wealth
Fatma Zohra Habis
#TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry
#inkMine #knot
threading footsteps
over green slicked boulders
trusting the rope
i lower myself into a cool clear pool
knot by knot
#TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry #tanka #vss365
irenic mood
despite life's gusts
show must go on
fascinated by
inextricable knots
#vss365 #fascinate
#TankaThursday #knot
#BraveWrite #irenic
#InkMine #mood
#DailyHaikuPrompt #gusts
#Tanka #TankaPoem #micropoetry #micropoem
For #TankaThursday
tanka weekly #poetry challenge March 26, 2026
this week’s prompt: knot
write a tanka using prompt & include hashtag #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry
with much thanks to @evecastle.bsky.social
Poem: a knot in the scarf a knot in the scarf a kaleidoscope of color all stand silently handcuffs over suited wrists judgement swirls across the court paired with image of a View from the roof of the Rosebank mall, looking SWW towards the Northcliff ridge. Somewhere below is the hole dug when the Old Mutual building was torn down The iron railings look over the disappearing view as architects and businesses blind the eyes with concrete and steel. Artwork for contemplation only; a low-res copy of the original, unsuitable for commercial use, ©owner Words & image ©ilinkcs (2026/03)
a knot in the scarf
a kaleidoscope of color
all stand silently
handcuffs over suited wrists
judgement swirls across the court
…
ALT=deets
#TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry
#poem #poetry #knot @evecastle.bsky.social
tanka weekly #poetry challenge
March 26, 2026
this week’s prompt:
knot
write a tanka using prompt & include hashtag #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry
#tanka resources to develop your practice:
tankasocietyofamerica.org
Tanka Society of America
www.tankasocietyofamerica.org
TANKA
delicate feelings —
roses newly opening,
beauty upon stalks
of thorns, sensitivity
protected from trespassers.
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#poetrycommunity #blueskypoets #flowers #nature
TANKA
Squirrels bury nuts,
recalling the location
of thousands of them
whereas I don't remember
where I last put my glasses.
#tanka #tankapoem #haiku #senryu #micropoetry
#poetry #inkmine #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets
#memory #animals
