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Gogyohka Poems

A chapter in the book 2024 Japanese Poetry

A Mother's Song

by Gypsy Blue Rose


dedicated to my mom

 

let me wipe your tears

I’ll be with you night and day

keeping you close – 

I want to bounce you on my lap

and rock you in my arms

don’t worry about a thing

you won’t face the world alone – 

no need to be scared

I will look under your bed

to keep the monsters away

 

 




I wrote this poem for my mother who died when I was ten years old. I always wonder how different my life would be if I still had her. She was a wonderful loving mom.

Gogyohka is a five-line free-style Japanese poetic form with no strict rules on syllable count but as brief as possible. Any theme. Lines are grammatically connected. Alliteration, personification, and metaphor are okay but never rhyme. Japanese poets have written gogyohka since the 1910s. However, they did not name the form until 1983 by poet Enta Kusakabe. === source = writers digest ===source=wikipedia

Thank you for taking the time to read and review my poem.

Gypsy

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