I'm your North Star
and you are my Big Dipper—
we ride high across
the universe midst stardust
tangled in drops of Jupiter
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Author Notes
The Big Dipper consists of seven bright stars of the constellation Ursa Major. It always points to the North Star. The North Star is in the same location every night from dusk to dawn, neither rising nor setting. It's a good point of reference to find your way wherever you are.
'Drops of Jupiter' is the title of a song I like by the band Train, it's not related to the poem.
Tanka is a Japanese unrhymed poem having about 12 to 31 syllables usually arranged in five lines. The syllable count is 31 syllables OR LESS. The first English poets who wrote tanka imitated the Japanese models of a 5-7-5-7-7 syllabic structure resulting in Tanka poems that were too long in comparison to Japanese tanka because Japanese syllables are shorter than English syllables. The third line transitions 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.
pictures from pinterest
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