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Contemporary Tanka (rules in my author notes)
2024 Gypsy's Tanka
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Life After Life
by Gypsy Blue Rose
for Dean Kuch, may he rest in peace
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life after life
I search for my loving wife
while unable to die —
drenched with sorrow and blood
others' pain for mine
I’m a monster
not worthy of her love
I kill again and again—
unable to stop
I bargained my soul to find her
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Author Notes
The poem is based on the Bram Stoker's Dracula novel and movie. I love it. Dean Kuch and I shared love for this movie, and horror in general. The picture is from the Dracula movie with Garry Oldman and Winona Ryder.
"I have crossed oceans of time to find you" - Bram Stoker
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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