TANKA
the night beckoning
a warm blanket of darkness
enveloping me
my eyes can’t see without light
I awaken inner sight.

#sensewrds 209 enveloping #tanka #tankapoem #haiku
#senryu #micropoetry #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets
#meditation #mindfulness #inspiration

#tankapoem, #tankathursday

“the quiet unfolding/ around your shoulders/
like a shawl…” Dorianne Laux

TANKA
Thrust into springtime
waking to the waking world,
shrugging off my shawl,
unwilling to clothe myself
in anything but wonder.

#sensewrds 208 wonder #tanka #tankapoem #haiku
#micropoetry #poetrycommunity #poetry

TANKA FOR ONE WHO DIED
Tomorrow cancelled,
dreams die before given form,
potentials remain
unfulfilled, earth’s airports close —
no flights. Heaven’s gate opens.

#7syllablesentence give #tanka #tankapoem #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry #blueskypoets #death
#grief #poetrycommunity

TANKA
After the strip tease
of autumn, cold, snow, ice, sleet,
(sinking deep into
their roots) trees’ hibernation
ends, life returns to limbs – Spring!

#vss365 sink #micropoetry #tanka #tankapoem #haiku
#poetrycommunity #inkmine #spring #nature #trees

TANKA
Once this was the land
of milk and honey — cows roamed
free, bees multiplied
in millions of hives. We need
to protect our cows and bees.

#WIPSnips milk #tanka #tankapoem #haiku #senryu
#haikusaturday #micropoetry #environment #blueskypoets
#animals #bees #wethepeople #savetheplanet

THE WAY TO GO IS NOT TO GO
a tanka

Not trying to move
forward, but deepening where
I am, deep down till
what’s holding releases me
and I am finally….free.

#haikufeels deepen #micropoetry #tanka #tankapoem
#haiku #haikusaturday #senryu #poetry #blueskypoets
#inspiration #transformation #freedom

After being diagnosed with an eye disease...

TANKA
My eyes, you’ve shown me
faces I’ve loved, read for me,
gloried in nature
and art’s colorful displays,
helped me navigate my world.

#tanka #tankapoem #haiku #haikusaturday #senryu
#micropoetry #poetry #poetrycommunity #gratitude
#eye #sight

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
#poem #poetry @evecastle.bsky.social

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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

#tankapoem, #tankathursday

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
#tanka #tankathursday #tankapoem #haiku #senryu
#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

#TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry

#tanka

maundy thursday
in the hen shack
no eggs
while the moon wanes
rooster crows

#TankaThursday #eggs
#DailyHaikuPrompt #waning
#TankaPoem #Tanka #micropoetry #micropoem

#tankapoem, #tankathursday, #poemchallenge

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

#TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry
#poem #poetry @evecastle.bsky.social
#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.

#tanka #tankapoem #haiku #senryu #micropoetry
#poetry #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets #poem

Tanka Society of America Welcome to the Tanka Society of America website. Here you can learn more about the society, its activities, and membership benefits. You can also learn more about our print journal, Ribbons, our membe...

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.

#tanka #tankapoem #haiku #senryu #micropoetry
#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.

#tanka #tankapoem #haiku #senryu #micropoetry
#poetry #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets #body

#tankapoem, #tankathursday

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

TANKA
Your image was sketched
in my memory. Details
fading with the years.
Holding you, unseen, within
my heart, you are still with me.

#tanka #tankapoem #haiku #senryu #micropoetry
#poetry #blueskypoets #inkmine #memory #grief

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#tanka #tankapoem #kyoka #micropoetry #poetry
#poetrycommunity #blueskypoets #poem #humor
#memory #computers
(A kyoka is a humorous tanka)