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

#TankaThursday #TankaPoem #knot #thingstowriteabout #scarf #tanka #poetry #writing #crochet

earth to heaven
a surreal knot
steeped in pure love
only a few can forge
such an eternal bond

#TankaThursday #tanka #KJDreamyPoet #poetry #PoetrySky

How to #knot a #scarf
#first #steps, #wrap around your neck
no #illusive feat
stand out as #original
a style not to be #ignored

#TankaThursday
#OurPoetryX
#inkmine
#vss365
#WIPSnips
#emoetry
#tanka

the mockingbird
dressed in a silver suit
inside his jacket
he reveals how he cuts
the gordian knot

#tanka #TankaThursday #surreal

exam season
two physicists
tie the knot
with a cord of
infinite elasticity

#TankaThursday (knot)
#tanka

TANKA
Earth goddess Gaia
groans. "I serve you well," she says,
"provide water, air,
minerals, land – sustain life.
Why are you destroying me?"

#tankathursday #tanka #haiku #senryu #micropoetry
#poetry #ecologty #poetrycommunity #nature #environment
#earth #mythology

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

swirling knots in bark —
where the tree has regained
its voice after wound
to tell its secret story
in the quiet language of scars

#tanka #poetry
#TankaThursday

#tankathursday

*
no poems today
on this day of bloodshed
hush child
read your book
of sunsets

*

By Dan Schwerin

a tree trunk that has about a six-inch wide opening from about six inches off the ground that continues up for several feet that shows the inside of the trunk is mostly hollowed out; there are leaves and sticks inside the bottom of the hole; there is moss on the right side of the trunk; other trees fill the background; photo taken at Cook Forest State Park in summer

a tree knot that grew
a wound that hollowed out
its very core
now its open mouth screams
let your stomach knots speak

#TankaThursday prompt: knot #haiku #trees #nokings

the cluster of stars
is perhaps a knot
in the fabric of space
your touch unties
a sigh of longing

#tanka #短歌 #TankaThursday '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

Fascinating auroras
vibrant ribbons curl
across pale horizons
surreal skies dazzle
with knotted mystery

#vss365 #inkmine #BSPP51 #poem #skypoets #micropoem #poetrycommunity #tanka #TankaThursday

at the #knot of things
forms cohere and #fascinate
our worlds meet inside
language traces slow crossings
easing the woven tension

#tankaThursday #vss365 #tanka
#blueskypoets
📸 from Great Big Canvas

a knot
in my handkerchief
remembering
what I meant
to forget

#tankathursday #tanka #knot

more useful than God
or how to fold a flag
this old scout
carries in his pack
a knowledge of knots

#TankaThursday (knot)
#tanka
#micropoetry

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

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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:

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Spring's sunset shall smile
Mother Nature takes the reigns
Old Man Winter wanes
a break from nasty weather
all soak it up together

#inkmine
#TankaThursday
#thingstowriteabout
#MadMarch

#Tanka

#tankapoem, #tankathursday

#sunset #TankaThursday #tanka #tankapoem #fivelines #insomnia #promptcombo
#smallpoemsunday
photo my own

Scarlet poppies thrive
by dividing the stones
in the jagged pathway
a beguiling contrast
in the pastel sunset

#vss365 #inkmine #tanka #TankaThursday #poetry #poetrycommunity #poem #skypoets #micropoem

sunset or rise
why divide myself
scary darks / smiling bright
when these colours such colours
as day touches night

#vss365 (divide)
#TankaThursday (sunset)

#tankapoem, #tankathursday

a feather
drifts into the sunset
its barbs
turn to silk
on the way home

#tankathursday #tanka #sunset

pink sky
fading into purple
soft sunset
blankets the quiet room
I love when you say my name

#tanka #TankaThursday

sun sets
on the empire’s edge
and the moon
will have a dawn
of its own

#TankaThursday #TankaPoem #tanka #micropoetry

driving home
sunset at my side
melting light
I keep on driving
I will be home soon

#TankaThursday #DailyHaikuPrompt #tanka #haiku #poetry #Micropoetry