Romance Poetry posted February 5, 2024 | Chapters: | ...10 11 -12- 13... |
Tanka
A chapter in the book 2024 Gypsy's Tanka
Sailing Westward
by Gypsy Blue Rose
For Rules, Please Read My Author Notes
I'll sail westward
across the universal sea
guided by Venus— with a cargo of love poems written with blue stardust ink |
Tanka is a Japanese unrhymed poem having about 12 to 31 syllables usually arranged in five lines. The syllable count is 31 syllables OR LESS. Japanese use a 5-7-5-7-7 syllabic structure but English are usually fewer syllables than that because Japanese syllables are shorter than English syllables. The third line is usually used to transition from the top descriptive lines to the image-focused reflective metaphor, simile, or personification for the closing lines. The subject matter varies, but most tanka are emotionally stirring or profound, and many are about love.
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"The poet waits quietly to paint the unsaid.
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Gypsy
"The poet waits quietly to paint the unsaid.
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