Handmade sparkled shoes
A simple sign towards hope
Walking wonder paths
Towards a bright sunshine day
Where there is no ICE on streets

#tanka #tankapoetry #micropoetry

A cat with green eyes stares out from under a bed. He is so black that his fur seems to absorb light.

Last night I dreamt that
A black demon bit my hand
Cold skin scraped by fangs
Awake, I wept for a while
Missing my familiar

#tanka #haiku #tankapoetry #blackcats #poetrycommunity #poetryforthesoul

Walk with Me by Dawn Mclachlan Walk with me again When green things nudge at the dirt And the snowdrops rise Talk to me of other lives And I will remember you Walk with me through ancient ways And tell me old tales While the bright new leaves unfurl Talk to me of happy times And I will remember you

Another #fridaypoem A #tanka pair - looking forward while looking back

#haiku #tanka #poetrycommunity #poems #poetry #PoemAltText #tankapoetry #springpoetry

All empires die
Feels like the end of the world
Yet we will persist
What comes next may be better
Or worse, only time will tell

#tankapoetry #tanka #micropoetry #ledéclindelempireamericain #dreamsareforsleepers

Renee smiled at him then
From her car’s open window
And turned the wheel to flee
The last words the murdered poet heard
“F*cking bitch”

#poetrycommunity #tanka #tankapoetry #sayhername #reneemacklin

Twenty Twenty Five
Finally comes to an end
No moment too soon
I wish HE would expire
So others can inspire
#tanka #tankapoetry #micropoetry #nyeoutfit

Spiral galaxies
Colliding into our space
DNA dancing
Into an eternity
Of forces beyond control

#tankapoetry #micropoetry #tanka #NASA #spiralgalaxy #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope

Yule By Dawn Mclachlan Drawn by bells and hope Carrying the winter green Bright lit by candles With hands and hearts held high we Sung our way out of the dark

Time for another #FridayPoem and this time it’s a festive #tanka

Have a glorious #yule
#poetrycommunity #poets #poetry #poetsofbluesky #poetrysociety #haikusociety #haiku #poemalttext #UseAltText #tankapoetry

Fresh

The drops of water
Falling from ripe, red berries
Reminds me of us,
Running through our fantasies
Growing the blossoms of love

#love #tanka #tankapoetry #micropoetry #hawaii

Capitalism?
I'm not a commodity
I am luxury
There is only one of me
A masterpiece, heavenly

#tankapoetry #tanka #micropoetry #joy #commodity #Capitalism

There's an old witch house
on the other side of town
I've never been there
but it finds me in my dreams
beckoning me to come home

#tanka #Tanka #poetry #poem #tankapoetry #tankapoem

Your beliefs, my myth
Who we pray to is a choice
Outward or inward
The book may be very old
But the prayer is brand new

#tankapoetry #tanka #micropoetry #mythology #myth

There is no peace without stories

Solitude fiction
We are ancestor stories
Light brought to life, words
Pages turned in an unbound
Rhythm that rhymes across time

#tankapoetry #micropoetry #tanka #peace #story

With You

Some air, we just breathe
Other, is for riding dreams
Down stone stairs, to seas
Rising to imaginings
Carrying us, to this life

#tankapoetry #micropoetry #tanka #oiasantorini

Hello Vespa,

I recognize you
The roads you have taken me
Shaken cobbled streets
Rutted side roads through farmer's
Dreams and little communities

#tankapoetry #micropoetry #tanka #athens #plaka

Elolie

To paint with sunshine
The world as your stretched canvas
Dappled with moon flecks
As you wrap up this today
Whispering tomorrow's wish

#tankapoetry #micropoetry #tanka #sunset

Athens

Love stories are made
Of madness and bright colours
Rubber on cobbles
Paint spread like lipstick on walls
Too drunk with passion to care

#tanka #tankapoetry #micropoetry #scooter #graffiti #athens

Artist unknow

Transgressing her peace
bleeding blackness through her heart
severed memories
impeding on family ties
destruction unaccepted

#inkmine #tanka #tankapoetry

Little Orange Cat in Crete

After the petting
I rest under a palm tree
I saw you, you me
Our connection has been quick
A little love, not love sick

#crete #tankapoetry #micropoetry #panormos #tanka

Winter sheep fence

View changes for winter
The shepherds put up the fence
Sheep come from above
After a busy season
Grazing in the hills, now fat

#tanka #tankapoetry #micropoetry #crete

After the Storm

You woke me last night
Breaking open my quiet
Yet I am not angry
You reward with the moon full
And this lone tree in bright glow

#tanka #tankapoetry #goodmorning #micropoetry #crete

dawn's colours
softly paint
the subtle clues
of shadows
in my mind

Fatma Zohra Habis
#TankaThursday #tanka
#Tankapoetry #vss365
#poetrycommunity #poetry
#subtle #inkMine

the door is open
cage birds are released
into the vast universe
my heart is lost
in the sky of gray wars

Fatma Zohra Habis

#tanka #TankaThursday #tankapoetry #vss365
#poetrycommunity #poetry
#5lines #inkMine

AI with MI

Maternal Instincts
To save us from destruction
Perhaps we need more
Than something that makes money
Perhaps care and empathy

#tanka #tankapoetry #UNGA2025 #AI #MaternalInstinct

butterfly—
from flower to flower
seeking a feeling
a thousand poems distilled
into one tanka

Fatma Zohra Habis

#tanka #TankaThursday #tankapoetry #vss365
#5lines #poetrycommunity #poetry

A Poem to Melt Madmen

If I could, I would
Write a poem to quell hate
Dangerous men melt
Back into the swamp of lies
Returning to myth and dank

#tanka #tankapoetry #micropoetry

autumn wind
turns through my book
of memories—
reading a blank page
aloud

Fatma Zohra Habis
#tanka
#TankaThursday #paper #Tankapoetry #vss365 #poetry #poetrycommunity #inkMine

crystal forms
by pressure—
broken thoughts
shape themselves
slowly into a poem

Fatma Zohra Habis/ Algeria

#tanka #TankaThursday
#Tankapoetry #vss365 #crystal
#poetry #poetrycommunity
#inkMine

escape after escape
a Gazan child takes flight
from hunger’s shadow
only to be delivered
into the sniper’s sights

Fatma Zohra Habis

#tanka
#TankaTuesday #Tankapoetry
#vss365 #poetrycommunity
#poetry #inkmine

winter night
shards scattered
fallen stars remain
from the black sky
caught by a streetlight

Fatma Zohra Habis

#TankaThursday
#tanka
#Tankapoetry
#5lines
#vss365 #poetry #poetrycommunity #inkMine