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Contemporary Tanka (rules in my author notes)
2024 Gypsy's Tanka
: Cicada Songs by Gypsy Blue Rose

 
 
 
cicada songs

   resonate in the sleepy town —

  where nobody appreciates

their broken heart ballads

of mating longing
 
 
 
 

Author Notes
CONTEMPORARY TANKA has its seeds in the human heart and mind. IT grows into the myriad leaves of words and phrases expressing what the poet thinks and feels in her or his heart. Tanka are beautifully lyrical and they are often about love, loss, longing, and similar aspects of our emotional lives,

Throught Japanese history, women have being the best tanka poets. Tanka originated in the imperial court where men and women exchanged tanka poems after a night together. The poems were deeply passionate. Women poets were committed to a life of both religios conciusness and erotic intensity.

Pivot lines are featured in Japanese tanka and are often a feature of in English tanka, but it's not necessary. A pivot line, is usually written on line 3, can be read sensibly with lines 1 and 2, and lines 4 and 5, a property that can be used to introduce ambiguity and resonance into the poem. * click here if you want to read modern tanka examples * click here to join the Tanka Society of America * click here if you want to read modern tanka rules

Famouse Tanka Poets: lady akazome emon; lady murasaki shikibu; ono no komachi; izumi shikibu; yosano tekkan; ishikawa takuboku; yosano akiko; masaoka shiki; ochiai naobumi; amy lowell; kenneth rexroth; carolyn kizer; tweetspeakpoetry.com * sources

Thank you very much for your time and kind review.

Gypsy
"The poet waits quietly to paint the unsaid

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