Photo by Donald Tong on Pexels.com They came in the nightNobody saw or heard themOur world stripped awayThere were signs which we ignoredPutting a price on freedom Copyright Francis 2022
Category: tanka
Tanka: Media Dispelled!
Photo by Evelina Zhu on Pexels.com I am still breathingThe sun still rises each dayI am sovereign;There's nothing between natureand me - media dispelled! Copyright Francis 2022
Tanka: Shell
Photo by franpics from Pexels Once you had meaning Now a shell of shrinking means - church in name only But once you were healing us, drawing down the ether's light Copyright Francis 2021
The Spinner
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com A web clingswith limpid fragility to the fractured sapling,timorous in air's breath,long left by the spinnerof autumn's lair Copyright Francis 2021
Tanka: ‘Unto the End’
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com For years I believedThey foisted lies upon meLight comes to me nowEven unto the world's endYou are not deserting me Copyright Francis 2020
Travelling in the Wilderness (Tanka)
Photo by Mathias P.R. Reding on Pexels.com Family strangersYoungest -- I am odd one outMission accomplishedHurled into this mad, mad worldDid I really choose this fate? Copyright Francis 2020 *Poetics dVerse.
Tanka: ‘Remember, Remember’
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Pennies for the GuyHeroes portrayed as traitorsHistory repeatsA dime has dualityTurn over the other side Copyright Francis Barker 2020
Tanka: ‘Dark Times’
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Tanka: Under the Sun
Crises sharpen minds: Escaping to the country Starting a new life We must reclaim who we are Our freedom under the sun copyright Francis Barker 2020
Tanka: Mad Situation
Did I ask for this? Who's forcing it upon me? I say take it down I will refuse to kowtow My life is always my own copyright Francis Barker 2020
Tanka: Manifesto
No left and no right I exist at the centre My family first My community second Building blocks of the nations copyright Francis Barker 2020
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