I see you at the beach
every night crying for him
and I know —
your heart is on the mend
so I’ll wait with the hazy moon
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Author Notes
Tanka is a Japanese unrhymed poem having about 12 to 31 syllables usually arranged in five lines and read in about two breaths in length when read aloud. The first poets who wrote tanka imitated the Japanese models of a 5-7-5-7-7 syllabic structure in five lines. This resulted in poems that were too long in comparison to Japanese tanka. The first tanka were padded or chopped to meet the fixed number of syllables. Additionally, the third line must transition from the descriptive and image-focused beginning lines into a 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
WOMAN TANKA POETS
I write my Tanka Poems in the classical style of Japanese women tanka poets. The classical tanka themes are about passion, love, loneliness, and loss. A couple of my favorite poets are Ono No Komachi, from the 800 century her poems and Yosano Akiko, 20th century. her poems
Thank you very much for your time and kind review.
Gypsy
"The poet waits quietly to paint the unsaid." --Atticus
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