Poetry Challenge #7 Tanka

A Japanese poem consisting of five lines, the first and third of which have five syllables and the other seven, making 31 syllables in all and giving a complete picture of an event or mood.

Here are my attempts at tankas:


Fake Smile

She smiles, it is fake,

a tyranny of falsehood,

eyes still like a lake,

she wants but I will not give,

her heart is forever hid

Cruel World

My fell eye abides,

that which her heavens derides,

single tear is spared,

my soul, I cannot leave bared,

world is unkind, she confides.