' ' ' ' Let's Do It Tankas Poem by Dónall Dempsey

WE AND OUR SHADOWS

Lavender shadows
just as real as real thing
that bee visits both.
Our two shadows too...falling
in love on the grass...as one.

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LET’S DO IT!

Pigeons Bill & Sue
Bill & coo to each other
just as we two do.
Plants...birds...humans all in one
accord...whistling Cole Porter.

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UNSTILL LIFE

I am the perfect
artist’s model...keep so still
as if at will – a statue.
But...oh no...part of me...grows
in reply to your sly smile.

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POSY

Watch you gather these
moments...flowers in your hand
like a little girl
presenting me a pretty
posy of haiku...tanka.