Tanka

Be very careful
Pay heeds to a stone’s silence
Tells of a morrow.
You may not like to hear of
The future is your silence.

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Tanka

Much rain upland
River bursts overflow lowland
Burial ground a lake
Man in row-boat hits headstone
He’s not a swimmer and drowns

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Tanka (old age poverty)

Touch me now old gold
Before wealth is meaningless
Midas’s feel missing
Golden years an abstraction
Undertakers will not kiss me.