Fantasy Poetry posted May 11, 2024 Chapters:  ...28 29 -30- 31... 


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

Life After Life

by Gypsy Blue Rose


for Dean Kuch, may he rest in peace

life after life

I search for my loving wife

while unable to die —

drenched with sorrow and blood

others' pain for mine

I’m a monster

not worthy of her love

I kill again and again—

unable to stop

 I bargained my soul to find her

 

 

 




The poem is based on the Bram Stoker's Dracula novel and movie. I love it. Dean Kuch and I shared love for this movie, and horror in general. The picture is from the Dracula movie with Garry Oldman and Winona Ryder.

"I have crossed oceans of time to find you" - Bram Stoker

TANKA In Japan's Imperial Court, lovers exchanged Love Tanka poems after a night together. The response tanka used elements or images from the first tanka poem.

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, The poems are deeply passionate. Women poets were committed to a life of both religious consciousness and erotic intensity.

Pivot lines are a feature in Japanese tanka and are often a feature of English tanka. A pivot line, is usually written on line 3 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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