breath of calm breeze
sweeps dust off graves
and plastic flowers—
resembling lost memories
settled on fresh forget-me-nots
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Author Notes
Forget-me-nots are flowers, see bottom picture.
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, The poems are deeply passionate. Women poets were committed to a life of both religious consciousness and erotic intensity.
Pivot lines are a feature in Japanese tanka and are often a feature of English tanka. A pivot line, is usually written on line 3 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
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Gypsy "The poet waits quietly to paint the unsaid.
pictures from my Pinterest account
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