Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 17hthe flow of words not fit for tanka, incoming senryu #senryu #hiraku 020
Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 17htonight's prices 'blood-sugar' high trying my best to retain all of my peace #tanka 020
Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 17ha patient fresh out of the hospital -- staggering bit by bit he works hard to find a hotel to go to #tanka 020
Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 17hthere's so much to say... these full-bodied tanka hold the minutiae of my humdrum life #tanka 020
Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 17hnot near enough to the blue cornflowers to soothe frustration i compose a tanka as the hour gets late #tanka 041
Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 18hsneaky glances over my latté at the man with hazel green eyes #tanka 021
Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 18hbit of joggin after work to decompress and pretend im runnin' away from myself #tanka 020
Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 20hthis one mosquito has bitten me nonstop - the vicissitudes of life come one on top of the other #tanka 010
Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 20halways with the same tight smile... day by day i become more cynical #tanka 010
Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 20hwatching with horror as a group of customers approach... my peace shattered into fragments #tanka 021
Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 20hthis afternoon flooded with people's energy. i don't mean to complain, but its all i can do to keep from running around this place screaming my head off. wickedness of twisted ivy what i wouldn't give to be a kept man #tanka #tankabun 020
Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 20hmoman was my safe place... i am still shocked by people's hatred toward candy corn #tanka 010
Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 20hold shack at the edge of a dense forest - tomorrow will arrive in a flurry of activity #tanka 010
Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 20hsweet glaze over the freshly baked cake - these days mortality is constantly on my mind #tanka 041
Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 20hafternoon workshift every other word is a Creole expletive... today's emotions are paper thin #tanka 021
Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 20hhating when classical Japanese works are modernized all i want is to be left alone #tanka 020
Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026leaving the bills in a pile wishin i had a cigarette #tanka 082
Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026on a whim opening a book on Calculus... what the hell am i really doing #tanka 083
Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026gardening abandoned - in bed reading Alexis Rotella's tanka #tanka 082
Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026adjusting the ornate brooch on this cheap work shirt #tanka 0135
Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026news of an incoming storm ... eleven inches of rain everyday for the rest of the week #tanka 072
Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026congested— taking elderberry cough syrup catching the end of a car's red tail lights #tanka 083
Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026trying my hardest to ignore the ringing of a phone night turns in on itself #tanka 072
Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026crack in the mirror i've left a pile of washed clothes unfolded #tanka 051
Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026turning my back to guests to suppress yawns the night continues moving slowly #tanka 062
Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026on the counter leaving a cheap pen uncapped tonight's Coke has become flat #tanka 062
Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026near the water, reminiscing; the blues lowly playing in the background. #fragments #micropoetry 052
Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026sketching ideas for the day in the background Big Mama Thornton and the percolator #tanka 040
Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026the blues tradition is the gospel. they happen in two different places. aint no separation 'tween them. - Dr. Daniel 'Baba Omotoshi' Black 030
Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026morning coffee with the blues i wake up my soul #senryu #hiraku 084
Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026there aint that much diff'rence 'tween de chuhch house and de juke joint! aint much diff'rence 'tween hyms and the blues. 020
Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 28/09/20266. dragging the rest of my grieves in a brown box behind me, i climb into a bed not fit for resting... 7. opening/ closing doors, the neighbor's above us arguing again. 8. graffitti on the storewalls these shoes old #senryu 9. in a lonely rain, hopscotchin' ova ground cracks. #zuihitsu 042
Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026up an' down de boulevard de cars runnin' to'an fro ive perch'd maself on the porch in de dark watchin' darkness watch me steam from de coffee kisses ma face and de time moves on fleet feet ma peace silently writhin' in ma core #scrawnysonnet #micropoetry 040
Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 27/09/2026in a box of autumn the toil of being human stirring sweetner in black tea #tanka 163
Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 27/09/2026passing those hanging dragon lanterns of Mei's Chinese Buffet - darkness feels familiar #tanka 191
Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 27/09/20263. i should put aside the hangups that have come to define this life. 4. approaching forty-five in October, what is this morbid fascination that I have with death...with transition. since moman's death, death has become that much real. 5. the chocolates have a bitter taste. #zuihitsu 020
Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 27/09/20261. in a fragile but cheap glass vase, dropping hastily folded cranes and knockoff Hershey kisses. Not sure why I did this but it seemed the right thing to do at the time. 2. i suppose i am a bit cynical with most things in this world. ive been at the job-though my shift is over... #zuihitsu 020
Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 27/09/2026病監の窓の下びに紫陽花が咲き、折りをり風は吹き行きにけり below the window of the prison ward hydrangeas bloom— now and again the wind blows past - mokichi saito #tanka 053
Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 27/09/2026たたかひは上海に起き居たりけり鳳仙花紅く散りみたりけり fighting broke out over in Shanghai— touch-me-not petals scattered crimson red - mokichi saito #tanka 010
Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 27/09/2026屋根踏みて居ればかなしもすぐ下の店に卵を数へゐる見ゆ standing on the roof a sadness comes— in the shop right below I see someone counting eggs - mokichi saito #tanka 052
Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 27/09/2026鳳仙花城あとに散り散りたまる夕かたまけて忍び逢ひたれ touch-me-not petals scattered and gathered at the castle ruins as dusk fell we met in secret - mokichi saito #tanka 020
Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 27/09/2026死にければ人は居ぬかなと歎かひて眠り薬をのみて寝んとす now that she is dead is there no one left?— sighing in grief taking sleeping pills I try to sleep - mokichi saito 011
Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 27/09/2026氷きるをとこの口のたばこの火赤かりければ見て走りたり the man cutting ice the glow of the cigarette in his mouth so red I saw it and ran - mokichi saito 011
