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Jisei Tanka for the Japanese Poetry Club
A chapter in the book 2024 Gypsy's Tanka
Don't Look For Me
by Gypsy Blue Rose
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don't look for me
six feet under feeding bugs— my spirit will soar like a phoenix bird rising from burning fields  |
- The mythical phoenix spirit animal is the keeper of the fire in all of creation. It signifies transformation, death, and rebirth in its fire. As a powerful spiritual totem, the phoenix is the ultimate symbol of strength and renewal.
- Farmers burn their fields to remove plants that are already growing and to help the plants that are about to come up.
-JISEI (death poem) is a genre of Japanese poetry. It offers a reflection on the imminent death of the author or in nature. It originated in Zen Buddhism. to see source click here
JISEI can be written in HAIKU or TANKA form. Death poems are typically graceful, natural, and emotionally neutral. Death is described, metaphorically using references such as winter, phoenix bird, or falling cherry blossom to suggest the transience of life. wikipedia
- 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 less 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.
click here if you want to read modern tanka examples
click here to read Tanka Society of America
click here if you want to read modern tanka rules
Thank you very much for your time and kind review.
Gypsy
"The poet waits quietly to paint the unsaid.
- pictures from Jean Grey, Pinterest
- Farmers burn their fields to remove plants that are already growing and to help the plants that are about to come up.
-JISEI (death poem) is a genre of Japanese poetry. It offers a reflection on the imminent death of the author or in nature. It originated in Zen Buddhism. to see source click here
JISEI can be written in HAIKU or TANKA form. Death poems are typically graceful, natural, and emotionally neutral. Death is described, metaphorically using references such as winter, phoenix bird, or falling cherry blossom to suggest the transience of life. wikipedia
- 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 less 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.
click here if you want to read modern tanka examples
click here to read Tanka Society of America
click here if you want to read modern tanka rules
Thank you very much for your time and kind review.
Gypsy
"The poet waits quietly to paint the unsaid.
- pictures from Jean Grey, Pinterest
Club entry for the "JISEI POEM" event in "JAPANESE POETRY CLUB". Locate a writing club.
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