New  Tanka                                                                                                                              
 1)temple bells 
               
chiming all the day
               
day long tolls
                warping a hope 
                 ringing out the blues
  2) drums beat 
much show on stage thrall
   deafening sound while
   my mobile’s ringtones
   submerge into missed calls
 3)she
weaves dexterous
 on her
embroidery frame
 name of
her sibling
 somewhere
in similar vein
 remembers
her mother’s care
4)grandma knits 
the whole day and spins
the cut threads 
making baby pillow
soft and velvet like
5)  biting
chill
engulfs her with her babe
roll of rags  and leaves
 commoner’s
luxury  for  
 all times
and seasons caring.
 6)
arriving late
 on  rainy day to 
clinic
 she  sees  
agony 
 stamping  in life’s entourage
 as of her
shade during young
7) plucking 
a rose
 with
deft  fingers before due
 feel
of  poignant pain 
 
causing  a  premature  end
  much  same 
for  human alike
 8) a  construction site
not  brick
and  mortar  alone
anguished 
cry  of  the
soul  spent
of  life time  of 
choice
he relives his life again

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