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Love Tanka Pair for the Emotion Contest
2024 Gypsy's Tanka
: You Say Hello by Gypsy Blue Rose
Emotions Poetry Contest contest entry

 

 

 you say hello

      as you pass by—

the wind carries 

your delicious scent

and sound of laughter

 

 

 
 
 

sewn with time’s thread,

nights and days

are woven

with the endless journey 

of my eternal love

 
 
 
 
 
 

Author Notes
The contest calls for an emotion, I chose LOVE

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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