On days when big clouds
Are flying by in the sky –
I feel the world turn –
Forward or backward depends
On the day and way I look
11.01.20
Tanka T156
Love, fear, universe –
Happiness, sadness, friendship –
Imagination –
What are some words worth at least
A thousand pictures to you?
10.31.20
Tanka T155
You don’t get used to
Near death experiences –
You have to savour –
Each one as if it might be
Your last as it just might be!
05.02.18 – 05.05.18
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Notes to this poem…
Tanka T154
Running through life with
Shoes heavier than most wear –
I’m faster than most –
Repeated triumphs over
Tragedies keep me happy
05.03.18 – 05.05.18
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Notes to this poem…
Tanka T153
Anchors on ships are
Small compared to what they hold
Like anchors in life –
Be careful where you drop them –
And what you choose to be them
05.05.18
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Tanka T152
Inspirational
Art should be very messy –
That is why I will –
Never succeed much at it
With my organized mind set
05.05.18
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Notes to this poem…
Tanka T151
In the middle of
The Arizona desert –
Just after midnight –
The silence is deafening –
And the night sky is blinding
09.27.17 – 05.03.18
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Tanka T150
A utopia
That includes humanity –
Is not possible –
A perfect place cannot have
Imperfect features like us
04.30.18
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Notes to this poem…
Tanka T149
I love absorbing
The energy it takes to
Move all the water –
In Halifax’s sea harbour –
When I walk its water front
04.29.18
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Notes to this poem…
Tanka T148
If life were a game –
I want to be greet at
The Gates of Heaven –
By the Angels telling me
“Well played, Mr. Tan, well played!”
04.29.18
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Notes to this poem…
Tanka T147
I enjoy playing
Real pianos because –
They play me back with –
Reverberations not found
In digital pianos
04.28.18
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Notes to this poem…
Tanka T146
What if you could sell –
Time which you had left to live –
In chunks as you wished?
Without being allowed to
Know how much time you had left
04.28.18
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Minh Tan's Old Poetry 