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Pair of Tanka Poems
2024 Gypsy's Tanka
: After All This Time by Gypsy Blue Rose
rules in my author notes

 

 

after all this time

I still think about you 

    from time to time —

as fire flames dance inside

and winter rages outside

or

when love doves

glide and soar in deep saffron 

     and daisy heart shades—

 in a sunnyside up dusk

you're still woven into my thoughts

 

 

 

Author Notes
thinking about someone I loved long ago
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Shades of orange color: deep saffron
shades of yellow: daisy heart and sunnyside up

Tanka is my favorite Japanese poetic form. It's a romantic and passionate poem. It was created in the 8th century and used in the Japanese Imperial Court where lovers exchanged a tanka after a night together. The best tanka poets are women. I feel a kinship with these women tanka poets. After all this time, is still relatable.
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Rules: 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. Japanese use a 5-7-5-7-7 syllabic structure but English are usually less syllables than that because Japanese syllables are shorter than English syllables. The third line is usually used to transition from the top descriptive lines to the image-focused 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.

     

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