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Contemporary Tanka Suite (rules in my author notes)
2024 Gypsy's Tanka
: How Hard it is to Love You by Gypsy Blue Rose

 
 
 
how hard it is

   to love you the way I love you —

I'm torn

between kissing your sweet lips

or breathe the air around you

 

would you buy

this white kerchief in my hands—

sewn with threads

 of grief and loneliness

~ how hard it is to love you ~
 
 
 
 
 
 

Author Notes
Inspired by Spanish poet, Federico Garcia Lorca

The painting is "the Girl with a Pearl Earring" by Johannes Vermeer (1665)

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

Thank you very much for your time and kind review.

Gypsy "The poet waits quietly to paint the unsaid.

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