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Tanka (for rules please ck my author notes)
2024 Gypsy's Tanka
: Driving in the Storm by Gypsy Blue Rose

 
 
 
driving in the storm

blinded by high beam headlights—

that pierce like wolf eyes

amid lightning and thunder

my thoughts still warm in our bed
 
 
 
 

Author Notes
The wolf is my spirit animal in native American myth

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,

Throughout Japanese history, women have been 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 religions consciousness and erotic intensity.

Pivot lines are feature of 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 https://www.tweetspeakpoetry.com/2018/06/14/infographic-how-t>sources

Thank you very much for your time and kind review.

Gypsy
"The poet waits quietly to paint the unsaid.

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