hot summers
of my youth spent outside
—no iphones or tablets
spitting watermelon seeds
was way cool back then
#TankaThursday cool #TankaPoem #micropoetry
DANGEROUS SPECIES TANKA
(while watching wolves on a PBS nature show)
Wolves targeting
vulnerable animals —
White House wolf and pack
preying on the poor and ill
threatening their survival...
#tanka #tankathursday #tankapoem #micropoetry #poetry
#wethepeople #nokings #saveourdemocracy #indivisible
midnight cool
the whoosh of a heron’s
sudden dive
the faint whisper —
one more try
#tankathursday #tanka #cool #micropoetry
#tankathursday
#vss365
#Schwerin
*
yolk & grease
no judgments
the hot water
will take you
no need to ask
*
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
impossible
to be cool
now
here I am
but hotter
#TankaThursday (cool)
Aries cools his head
hovering on solar winds
with two golden wings
shepherding those lost at sea
true peace in Virgo’s garden
#TankaThursday
Stock photo of a group of sparrows squatting in an evergreen bush from Pexels.com Text: Outcast birdie flaps Aloft 'oer frosty meadow Called by chirping bush A host of sparrows huddled Ubiquity hunkered down https://haikudread.net/2026/04/16/hunkered/
#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact #tanka #TankaThursday #TankaJournal
his nobby back
like a sparrow's wing—
sheets rising falling
his sagging skin
not yet cool
#TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry #tanka #vss365 #poetry
#cool hush in the yard
bubbles of light on petals
thunder breaks the pause
low #clouds press close overhead
#marvel of sporadic rain
#tankaThursday #DailyHaikuPrompt #haikuchallenge #tanka #blueskypoets #nature #photography
early spring
in all her coolness
words, just words...
when she treats with
cherry blossons
#TankaThursday #cool
#vss365 #word
#thingstowriteabout #treat
#Tanka #TankaPoem #micropoetry #micropoem
tired
of all wars
spring clouds
its innocence
a marvel
#InkMine #tired
#BraveWrite #war
#DailyHaikuPrompt #clouds
#HaikuChallenge #marvel
#TankaThursday #noprompt
#Tanka #TankaPoem #micropoetry #micropoen
Magnolia blossoms with a church steeple and clock jutting up in between
release
any sense of time
surrender
to the summoning
of your soul blooming
#tankathursday #tanka
#poetry #deeplistening
For #TankaThursday
tanka weekly #poetry challenge April 16, 2026
this week’s prompt: cool
write a tanka using prompt & include hashtag #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry
With much thanks to @evecastle.bsky.social
Sakura blossoms in front of a blue sky with some clouds
Blossoming lamium
he already mourns
the first fading blossoms as
Spring's taking up speed
pushing out green and purple
Sakura swaying gently
#poetry #tanka #photography #bloomscrolling #tankathursday
Losing each other
…
once collaborative
now cool and transactional
stripped of love & warmth
words while functionally clear
are leading them nowhere
…
#TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry #cool
#poem #poetry @evecastle.bsky.social
Poets COMING SOON! Daily #Tanka Prompts for May.
May is National #tanka month. In May add #NaTankaMo and/or #MayTanka to your tanka poems.
Tanka = 5lines
May = 5th month
Do some, do all, or stick with one a week for #TankaThursday.
Credit to originator of 5th month as Tanka month M. Kei (2019)
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:
tankasocietyofamerica.org
Tanka Society of America
www.tankasocietyofamerica.org
I troll the news
over a second cup
of hot tea
more of the same shit
from the little k king
#TankaThursday troll #TankaPoem #micropoetry #tanka
I met a wise #troll
lives in a #Willow's hollow
he shared this wee #gem
let this #sink in, lose the guilt
that was then, that #milk is spilt
#TankaThursday
#inkmine
#thingstowriteabout
#vss365
#WIPSnips
#tanka
I'm a troll
fol de roll
Grandfather's
terrifying with glee
a new generation
#TankaThursday (troll)
#tanka
#tanka for #TankaThursday <troll> theme
trolling with his thumbs
from the safety of his cave
one day deciding
to stop trolling forever
but he’ll always be a troll
More a #kyoka but in classical tanka form of 5-7-5-7-7 syllables. I'm up to 7 variants of this so far, including some #choka versions.
TANKA
We have the manure
but also need water, seed
and us to commit
to be grassroots yet uproot
weeds, so tomorrow may bloom.
#dailyhaikuprompt grass #2wordprompt bloom
#tanka #tankathursday #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry #poetrycommunity #wethepeople #nokings
some salad nicoise
at least we were pretending
indulged together
each other's company made
formidable seasoning
#tankathursday #tanka #poetry
#poetrycommunity
#tankathursday
a tombstone sky
obscures what is
behind it
my dialogue
with light
enemy within
humanity trolls itself
time and time again
there is nobody to blame
except eight billion people
#TankaThursday #troll #tanka
𝑚𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑑 ‘𝑚𝑢𝑚𝑠
𝑠𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡
‘𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑊𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟-𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑠 𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑟
𝐼 𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑
𝑚𝑦𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠
𓂃𓋪◌𓂃𓋪◌𓂃𓋪◌𓂃𓋪◌𓂃
#TankaThursday | #troll
#tanka
#inkMine | #mum
fishing boat—
the trolling of bait
down the river
I realize again I can
never trust you
#tanka #TankaThursday