M e m o r i e S
Of our love-making nightS—
Ta n g l e D
With my long black haiR
Tide to the shadows you left behinD
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Author Notes
memories
of our love-making nights
tangled
with my long black hair
tight to the shadows you left behind
Inspired by Tanka Poet, Yosano Akiko book--Tangled Hair
3/6/3/5/9 syllables
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
Thank you very much for your time and kind review.
Gypsy
"The poet waits quietly to paint the unsaid." --Atticus
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