Excellent Pair Contemporary Tanka (rules in author notes) 2024 Favorites : You are my True North by Gypsy Blue Rose

I’m the south wind     dancing joyfully on your shores — and the ocean’s waves touching your body and soul which I can't do     in life there are highs      and there are lows— waves come and waves go but you'll always be my true north         Author Notes discovering your "true north" is about following your internal compass. The North Star never moves so is used in navigation to find your way the bottom tanka came to me last night in a dream 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 Thank you for reading and reviewing my poem. Gypsy Pictures from my Pinterest account. I have complete copyrights of my poems and presentations. Please, do not copy. Registered with Fanstory.

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