A butterfly is free
It flits and flies all around
The cocoon is gone
Nothing holds it back from flight
I want to be free like that
Tanka
Leona J. Atkinson
07-08-13
Tag: Tanka
Tanka poems
Freedom Lost
Amsterdam July 6 1942
Anne Frank lost her freedom
Let us never forget
‘Twas only 71 years ago today
The Frank Family hid away
Tanka
Leona J.Atkinson
07-06-13
July 6, 1942 Anne Frank and her family go into hiding for two years in the “Secret Annexe” above her father Otto Frank’s office which was in a warehouse in Amsterdam. Anne Frank was 13 years old. Read the account of her hidden life as recorded in her Diary.
Visit annefrank.org to learn more
Fourth of July
Our Life, Liberty,
And Pursuit of Happiness
Declarations made
As endowed by our Creator
Inalienable rights
Tanka
Leona J. Atkinson
07-04-13
High Hopes
Summertime dreaming
Vacation hopes in my mind
Checkbook wake up call
Dreams do not match reality
No vacation plans this year
Tanka
Leona J. Atkinson
06-29-13
In Honor of the Pen
To celebrate this
National Ball Point Pen Day
I buy a new pen
I write a new style of poem
My choice handwritten Tanka
Leona J. Atkinson 06-10-13
Tanka
(My first try at writing a Tanka, which is 5-7-5-7-7 syllables with the third line as a pivot)
To day is National Ball Point Pen Day
Brothers, Laszlo and Gyorgy Biro, are credited with the invention of the ballpoint pen and obtained a patent in June of 1943.
Leonas Lines--Poetry Plus 