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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 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.
My mom and two sisters were
all the family I knew.

I recall when mom
taught me to...

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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,

Premium Member Vicious Circle
to be immortal
strange wish for the human race
history repeats
lessons misplaced by culture
still---war supersedes logic

© Harry J Horsman 2022...

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Categories: angst, time,

A Child Smile Boosting War Will
Death terror stood still,
Looked askance warring evil,
From a pile of ruin
Amidst war’s terrible scene,
A child’s smile when lifted will.
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Tanka |05.03.2022| war...

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Categories: war,

Spirit Lives Amidst Death
Their pride was wounded,
And the win turned pyrrhic red,
Felt nigh defeated
When they saw some hands wave flags
O from a pile of dead rags.
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Tanka |04.03.2022|...

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Categories: pride, war,


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