gypsy blue eyes
filled with cerulean sky
and summer rain —
over her moonless night hair
braided with jasmine scent
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Author Notes
Spanish people commonly have blue eyes and fair skin in the north and brown eyes and darker skin in the south. This is due to the many invasions of European countries and North African Mediterranean countries. Most gypsy people live in the southern part of Spain, Andalucia.
Tanka is a Japanese unrhymed poem having about 12 to 31 syllables usually arranged in five lines and read in about two breaths in length when read aloud. The first poets who wrote tanka imitated the Japanese models of a 5-7-5-7-7 syllabic structure in five lines. This resulted in poems that were too long in comparison to Japanese tanka. The first tanka were padded or chopped to meet the fixed number of syllables. Additionally, the third line must transition from the descriptive and image-focused beginning lines into a reflective metaphor, simile, or personification for the closing lines. The subject matter varies, but most tanka are emotionally stirring or profound, and many are about love. click here if you want to read modern tanka examples === click here to read Tanka Society of America === click here if you want to read modern tanka rules
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Gypsy
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