Romance Poetry posted March 15, 2024 Chapters:  ...35 36 -37- 38... 


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Tanka (for rules please ck my author notes)
A chapter in the book 2024 Gypsy's Tanka

* When My Lover Comes *

by Gypsy Blue Rose

 
 
when my lover comes,

   he puts his arms around me —

opens the latch

to the door of my heart

and I fling it wide open
 
 
 
 
 
 




CONTEMPORARY TANKA has its seeds in the human heart and mind. IT grows into the myriad leaves of words and phrases expressing what the poet thinks and feels in her or his heart. Tanka are beautifully lyrical and they are often about love, loss, longing, and similar aspects of our emotional lives,

Throughout Japanese history, women have been the best tanka poets. Tanka originated in the imperial court where men and women exchanged tanka poems after a night together. The poems were deeply passionate. Women poets were committed to a life of both religions consciousness and erotic intensity.

Pivot lines are feature of Japanese tanka and are often a feature of in English tanka, but itâ??s not necessary. A pivot line, is usually written on line 3, can be read sensibly with lines 1 and 2, and lines 4 and 5, a property that can be used to introduce ambiguity and resonance into the poem. * click here if you want to read modern tanka examples * click here to join the 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.

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