It's the 2026 Poem-a-Week Challenge (This is a *poems only* thread.)

[nudeblaqgirl]

Tanka of Desire

Thirty seconds babe
All you have to impress me
Bring that killer line
Take me home and undress me
I'll be yours till morning light

 

[woodsman44]

Here

I tell her I'm aging out of this
This relationship
This experiment.
I'm growing, evolving
Solving the problems that haunted me
These troubles no longer consume my mind
My time reclaimed

She says I haven't caught up
Yet
Hopeful
That I can be the man she sees
When she looks anywhere
Everywhere
At everyone
But me

What she misses
-Is that differences,
Not experiences,
Defines 'us'
-Is that I am here
And she is not--
Not 'not yet'
As I always am to her
Just not
As she always has been to me

What she tells me
Is that we are in the same place
More or less
So long as I change.
I think we are in the same place
That we were
And we should go our separate ways
Again
Just this time
Not together

2

 

[VerbalAbuse]

Castrated Future

Space Marines
Radchaai ancillaries
Jedi knights, Asimov’s androids
All of them -- ballless she-males.
Who needs sex
When taking it up the arse in on the table?
Imagine the damage I’d do
If only I could get there.

 

[Tzara]

midwinter

an empty garden,
devoid of springtime flowers

my undisturbed bed,
sheets taut and blank without you—
mere uncultivated soil
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Week 3 : Poem 2 : Total 6

 

[SapioSexual9]

It just happened, beyond control
Desiringly, a tall drink of cool water sings
Your body needs me
Like a lemon peel needs
Iced tea with a tiny
Cube of sugar

#7

 

[nudeblaqgirl]

Tanka time for me
Poetry of ecstasy
Tankas take me there
Like a river, flowing fast
My climax will steal your soul