Excellent Tanka Suite (rules in my author notes) 2024 Gypsy's Tanka : ~@ My Beloved @~ by Gypsy Blue Rose

my beloved       sleeps on a flowerful meadow— by a creek of dreams  she awakes with my dewdrop kiss  and sun-warmed caress     my beloved      puts her hand over my heart — feeling drumbeats of love  to the rhythm of life’s trills composed with passion’s notes      my beloved    bathes in cleansing rivers — that can't quelch our fire    neither can torrents drown our needs  and I can’t stop longing for her            Author Notes Inspired by the Bible's Song of Solomon for more click here TANKA In Japan's Imperial Court, lovers exchanged Love Tanka poems after a night together. The response tanka used elements or images from the first tanka poem. 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 Thank you very much for your time and kind review. Gypsy "The poet waits quietly to paint the unsaid. pictures from my Pinterest account

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