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

#tankapoem, #tankathursday

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)

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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

#tankapoem, #tankathursday

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