if you want to know
what kind of person you are,
there’s a simple rule:
if you help others, you cool;
if you hurt others, you fool.
–photo by me
tanka tuesday 10/13/26
Tag: tanka
fleeting beauty (tanka)
shoreline flowers that
can see their own reflection
are both blessed and cursed–
they’re blessed at their blooming best
and cursed at their withered worst
–photo by son aaron
deadliest wild animal (tanka)
the deadliest wild
creature in america
is… the gentle deer
deer cause hundreds of highway
fatalities every year
–photo by me
tanka tuesday
if we are all one,
then that ‘one’ is singular
and truly alone–
despite how things may appear,
you are the only one here.
–image by gemini
holographic me (tanka)
i am the cosmos;
like every piece of it,
i contain the whole–
my mind and the cosmos are
holographic in nature
–image by gemini
moonshot (tanka)
when i was a child
i threw snowballs at the moon–
and assumed i’d missed,
but now, with my telescope,
i see the lunar landings
–photo by son aaron
tanka tuesday 12/16/25
in winter, there are
no wasps left in the nest to
shovel off the roof
only the queen lives, and you
can’t expect her to do it
–photo by me
past our prime (tanka)
i look up and see
old apples still on the tree–
they’re a lot like me
soft, over-ripe, and snow-crowned,
we just keep hanging around
–photo by me
tanka tuesday
an ingredient
that can make all food taste great:
the picnic table–
especially when it’s on
the shore of a forest lake
–photo by me
dark omen? (tanka)
now, a thing of dread:
a dark omen overhead–
the crow comes calling!
or is the bird just distressed
because i’m close to her nest?
–photo by me
