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War Tanka Poems

These War Tanka poems are examples of Tanka poems about War. These are the best examples of Tanka War poems written by international poets.


Premium Member A Japanese Tanka Written in Response to Pensive Solitude on The Eve of This Night
An outcast this night,
I mournfully sigh with gloom:
but, I make war, fight!
to rebel against the doom,
and emptiness of my room.

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Categories: depression, loneliness, lonely, longing,



Premium Member IN AND OF CREATION'S RESPONSIBILITY
God simply whispered,
“...Be light…”! And here we all are:
All engaged in war:
A world created in love;
Peacefully from up above:-

Why can’t we not see,
A world given...

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Categories: allegory, god, gospel, life,

Premium Member IN AND OF CREATION'S RESPONSIBILITY
God simply whispered,
“...be light…”! and here we all are:
all engaged in war:
A world created in love;
Peacefully from up above:-

Why can’t we not see,
A world given...

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Categories: allegory, creation, life, love,

Premium Member News Reports
News reports of war                     ...

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© Jim Healey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: war,

From Those Who Were There
So you are aware:
This is what a war looks like,
from those who were there.
It's not just from those who fight,
but those with reason to care.

Leaders...

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Categories: conflict, corruption, death, grief,



Premium Member Plus Preposition: Per Resolve
I: ? Resolve

kids all playing ball
old friends laughing of old times
couples holding hands
a lone man sits wandering
face dried of tears dons a smile

II: ? Resolve

white...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: analogy,

Premium Member STORM
Somber summer storm

Teases dark clouds with lightning

Orthodox at first-

Reforms with loud thunder booms

Morphing war midst armored skies

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Categories: sky, storm, war,

Constantine and the fiery sign
A solar halo
Sol Invictus blistering 
Or the cross blazing
Burning for roman bloodshed 
Who in truth was Cain scheming 
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Categories: fire, light, miracle, sun,

Premium Member - New Year 2024 -
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Categories: new year, war, winter,

Premium Member Why Are We Here
so, why are we here? 
    this existential question,
         enduring, complex.
the answer? LOVE. without...

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Categories: god, humanity, life, love,

A Presage
The scorching sunbeams
Envelop this atmosphere
In no time, for sure,
As if Nature is about
To blow her bugle of war....

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Categories: allegory, anger, nature, pollution,

Premium Member Dunkirk
Epitome bounds
useless waste sacrifices
will we ever learn?
our future movers, shakers
laid to a restless unknown...

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Categories: age, america, betrayal, death,

Premium Member Rotate Consciousness
                      forgive all evil...

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Categories: humanity, trust, war,

Premium Member Childhood Nostalgia
When I was a child,
I went picking blueberries,
I was perhaps three.
Mom and my two sisters were
all the family I knew.

One day, my mom taught
me how...

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Categories: adventure, childhood, emotions, feelings,

Premium Member Fallout From Satan Ii
brilliant flash eyes blind 
          split firmament nuclear blast 
      ...

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Categories: allusion, truth, war,


Book: Reflection on the Important Things