Excellent 4/7/5/7/8 Tanka Tanka Collection : The Grim's Danse Macabre by Gypsy Blue Rose for Dean Kuch

my grief rages across the mire to my beloved's grave where I watch in disbelief the Grim dancing with the dead in a dismal black haze               Author Notes -The Grim = is an omen of death, a shape-shifting black dog in the 17th-century. -The Danse Macabre is a strange tradition from the Late Middle Ages. Artists depicted people dancing with decaying corpses and skeletons, to express their fascination with death. GOGYOHKA is a five line free-style Japanese poetic form with no strict rules on syllables count but as brief as possible. Any theme. Lines are grammatically connected. Alliteration, personification, metaphor are okay but never rhymes. Japanese poets have written gogyohka since the 1910s. However, they did not name the form until 1983 by poet Enta Kusakabe. wikipedia for more info click here Thank you very much for taking the time to read and review my poem. Gypsy Word Weaver

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