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

First things first Truth Reconciliation Imagination Implementation Evaluation Adaptation Evolution But First... Truth

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

Peace A simple moment A quiet breath taken in A look to the sky A dove softly lands for you Peace is always an option. #peace #tanka #micropoetry

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

The Price of Peace The price of peace is your heart on display You are armed with a desire to love The only weapon you carry is hope Courage is open arms to hostile minds We are both the enemy and the friend Our choice is what we portend Painting: Friend of Peace by Macedonia's Vasko Taskovski

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

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

Blow It is quiet now Before the storms take our shores We are eroded The foundation has come loose Mad men do not build good lives #tanka #micropoetry

Take a Stanza Fragile poetry Assembled words on a page Heated in the fire Becomes a warrior's yell Fighting against injustice #tanka #micropoetry #resistance

Spore Sport A walk in the woods September Jack-o'-lanterns Growing from the roots Beautiful but do not eat Unless you want to see God #tanka #micropoetry #

Bright It is in the bright This energy giving life Our enlightenment Each moment of truth revealed The shadows uncontinued #micropoetry #tanka #SantoDomingo #encarnacion

Dew This moment is yours Pearls on a string hung like dew Promising sunshine To evaporate worries Replacing them with your dreams #tanka #micropoetry

Tea I want to dissolve into you Like honey in hot tea To know that your sweet lips Taste of all I can give you

Clothes Piles of your old clothes You try them, toss into piles To keep, give away There is a metaphor here About our life in general #micropoetry #tanka #sorting

The sand on the beach Reminds me that life is short And temporary While we may frolic and bask Each small shell once had a task #tanka #captiva

Lunch I was traveling Lawn is somewhat overgrown To a wee rabbit This field of wild violet Looks like a open buffet #tanka #bunny #lunch #backyard

The Poet's Tomb His muse sits alone Agony before his tomb Here lies her poet There is never time to waste Write your heart while the blood flows #tanka #málaga #museudemalaga #spain Painting: The Poet's Tomb (1901) by Pedro Sáenz y Sáenz

Watchful She minds the bathers Frolicking about in waves Sunning on the sand Steady in her watchful gaze Ready to save a lost soul #tanka #sitges #spain

Solitudinarian Should time come to pass That you are no longer here I may just give in Walk away from it all, be Solitudinarian #tanka #obscureword Portrait of Douglass Morgan Hall, oil painting by Thomas Eakins, 1889

Welcome Home Home is not a place It is that feeling you have When surrounded by People who love who you are Holding you in their spirits #tanka

Becoming Every season Has a way that we become Summer is for blooms The Fall is our soft tumble To rest and then Spring again #tanka #lisbon #poppy

Distraction They will distract you Feed you lies, make you swallow No, spit in their face Do not believe, resist, fight For the world we need is us #tanka

Stoics Momento Mori Amor Fati Premeditatio Malorum Sympatheia Summum Bonum The Obstacle Is The Way Ego Is The Enemy Act Accordingly #marcusaurelius

Caught for a Moment The light catches it Holding it for a moment Then releasing it Into the ether of thoughts That becomes the stuff of dreams #tanka #malaga

Consumption Growing consumption Has me quite confused really Do we buy for need Or is it unrequited greed Capitalism explained #tanka #capitalism

Summer Sweat Quiet summer day Hot, humid air hanging low Like uninvited Lovers at shotgun wedding A sticky situation #tanka

The Hurricane Inside My heart does not pump It unleashes a vortex Hurricane inside Rushing all I need to my Body, soul, extremities #tanka #heart

The Hopefulness of Bearberry Hey bear, please eat me! Let me hibernate with you Together asleep Rising in the Arctic spring Then you can amble away #tanka #Bearberry

Faith Not the old building Not the rituals or pomp I believe in love Compassion, shared suffering Rising spirits for life's joy #tanka #faith #compassion #joy

Your Light The light that shines from The aura of your spirit Leads me into grace Grateful for your bright presence Warmth that reaches across time #tanka Kat Foto

Little Bicycles of Barcelona Hers has pink tassels His is blue with red fenders Two little bicycles On paths of Barcelona Adventures of a lifetime #tanka #barcelona #bicycle

Our Light Our shadows don't lie Even when we try to be Decent and proper The light of our glowing hearts Gives us away to the world #tanka #lightplay #theshadowknows

I want to wake in the morning See her eyes on me and bathe in her smile I want hope, joy, warmth, beauty To be wrapped tightly in a little life... From the poem Tired www.facebook.com/share/p/16va...

Click Of all the possibilities The unlikely probabilities My unrealized fantasies It is you who astounds me most With the click of your heels You walked into my being Revealing this world I am seeing Seemingly for the first time A vision quest Decades in the making #newyork

Poet Era This is my poet era A time for lines Written on pages & on my face A time retreat to advance others To encourage fresh voices Speaking with courage About truth, love, possibilities Ground up from compassion Our shared suffering So that I may eventually leave With nothing but remains & peace

Racism is Something we Teach Children When I was a boy Before I learned to be "man" I only knew friends And strangers who might become Friends, I still try to feel this. #tanka #Brooklyn #blacklivesmatter

Beacon In times of trouble May you find needed refuge May your neighbours hold Your heart in their intentions Preserving humanity #tanka #Sitges #spain

Standing in Motomachi Park in the Rain The rain falls softly On Motomachi today You stand and watch me Forever proud of your place Near the old Prefectural #tanka #hakodate #motomachi

Not Separate Science is human An action towards the truth With Society To imagine better life How we live together here #lk102024 #tanka #Scienceandsociety