if - tanka

if, by chance, you could
scratch the moonlight with your thoughts,
it would bleed silver…
could you then forge my heart's tomb
from the scent of your sweet lies?

Sana Rose
I sigh...Lili.. ever so gently because I don't want to disturb the despondent serenity of this Tanka... if...if...if... that's what life's about...

nimal dunuhinga
You dragged me to my best Tankist Takuboku Ishikawa And I see a far away tomb, a silver bird rests.