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Welcome to our collection of Tanka poems! This traditional Japanese form of poetry consists of five lines and has been practiced for over a thousand years. Tanka poetry is renowned for its brevity and its ability to evoke powerful emotions and imagery in just a few short lines. In our collection, you will find a diverse range of Tanka poems from contemporary and classic poets alike. Each one is a celebration of the beauty and power of this ancient art form. So take a moment to explore this rich tradition of poetry and immerse yourself in the timeless beauty of Tanka.

Displaying 214 poems from the Tanka poetic form.

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Eons of Nowness (EON)
— Karl Constantine FOLKES
Time is relative
At the north and the south poles
Eyed by the viewer
It’s observer-dependent
In a global universe.

It can be zero
Or any other...
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A Tanka Poet’s Confession
— Karl Constantine FOLKES
I am good at it.
Intellectual rubbish.
Don’t ever quote me.
Unseemly Tanka poet.
Besmirched by lines not...
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Two Peas in a Pod
— Karl Constantine FOLKES
Two peas in a pod:
Individuation and
Being “born again.”
Together — separated.
By discernment, seen as...
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Man’s Subjective Mind
— Karl Constantine FOLKES
Is “Nothing” zero?
Some ask Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
Astrophysicist.
Whether there is a nexus
Of science and religion.

Tyson denies this.
“Objective...
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Reading Research Limitations
— Karl Constantine FOLKES
Phonological.
Language processing schema.
Is far from “Reading.”
Without semantic input —
Deep structures...
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The Russian Bear in Arms With the Ukraine
— Karl Constantine FOLKES
Putin and Hitler.
Two European warlords.
Birds of same feathers.
Waging dangerous warfare.
One checked, the other unchecked.

Hitler and Putin.
...
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Oh, When Will We Ever Learn?
— Karl Constantine FOLKES
A redemption song.
The voices of our people.
A redemption hymn.
Revolutionary call.
Oh, when will we ever learn?

A Baptist deacon.
Paul Bogle,...
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Wisdom of TAO Te Ching
— Karl Constantine FOLKES

THEME of TAO : “The emptiness of the circle ⭕️ is the fullness of its expression.”


 Use of languages,
a lexicon artifact,
with syntactic rules,
...
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The Synchronicity of Poetic Humor
— Karl Constantine FOLKES
Strange humor of dreams.
Charles Simic’s resurrected.
I ponder on Life.
And ‘crucifixion’ appears…
While dreaming at 3...
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Danger of Replacement Theology
— Karl Constantine FOLKES
Biblical untruth:
“Replacement Theology”
Of “Old Testament”
With “New Testament” Scriptures
Is patently incorrect.

Misleading schism
Of the...
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Remember This, Friend
— Karl Constantine FOLKES
Remember this, friend.
After all is said and done.
At your journey’s end.
Psyche always possessed you.
You are its prize...
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Psyche’s Refracted Light Gives Ego Spark
— Karl Constantine FOLKES
Descent and ascent,
human search to know ‘The Self,’
journey of ego,
is archetypal journey
into The Great Unconscious.

Journey of ego,
as...
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Be Spiritually Healed
— Karl Constantine FOLKES
A place for healing.
God’s healing sanctuary.
Come, all ye faithful.
Receive your consolation.

 Be healed now of all your wounds.

God bids you...
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Our Expanding Universe — It is Us!
— Karl Constantine FOLKES
A query for all:
Creation and our own Mind.
The coupling of both.
Both synchronized together.
To depict “reality.”

What exists must start.
...
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The Living Truth
— Karl Constantine FOLKES
That there is no God.
The fool says in his hard heart.
The soul knows better.
For it is made of Spirit.
Therein is the Living...
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Man’s Measure is Only Physical
— Karl Constantine FOLKES
Bible — a prism.
Metaphysical measure.
Of things that’s not seen.
Though some may call it schism.
From all that man can measure.

In contrast with...
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The Goal of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
— Karl Constantine FOLKES
Consider this thought
And its ramifications
Humans like machines
As autonomous systems
Robotic Homo Sapiens.

That our emotions
Are somewhat...
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Beyond Jungian Synchronicity
— Karl Constantine FOLKES
A postscript token.
A Fibonacci symbol.
In my dreams again.
Three women assigned numbers.
And my wife is Number 12.

12, 13, 14.
Assigned to the...
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The Perils of Globalization
— Karl Constantine FOLKES
Globalization.
Euro-American forces.
Hegemonic.
The control of resources.
Economic adventures.

Globalization.
A political world view.
...
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Genji’s Tragedy of Distraction
— Karl Constantine FOLKES
The tale of Genji
concerns the all that he lost;
all his love interests,
all his ten thousand lovers.
All imaging his mother.

The tale of DAO
...
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Two Strange Bedouins
— Karl Constantine FOLKES
A poetic quest.
Psychological dream quest.
The SELF united.
Both ‘Conscious’ and ‘Unconscious,’
To restore all to fullness.

Two Strange Bedouins.
...
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DAO Has No Need of Words
— Karl Constantine FOLKES
DAO as archetype,
is bereft of counterpart.
These eighteen stanzas,
as words, cannot express it.
They serve only as template.

DAO has no need.
DAO...
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DAOIST Principle of Unity
— Karl Constantine FOLKES
All the opposites
spring from the very same source.
Neither superior;
differing only in name.
The Gate to All Mystery.

A DAOIST thought:
“The...
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Kingfisher Galaxy Alcyoneus
— Karl Constantine FOLKES
Galaxies abound.
The universe expanding.
With no seeming end.
And a new discovery.
Of the largest universe.

Alcyoneus.
A new galaxy observed.
By...
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The Name Above All Names
— Karl Constantine FOLKES
The Great Mystery.
How can The Part — apart from.
That which is The Whole.
Ever comprehend Wholeness.
Singularity of...
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