| Commentary and Philosophy Poetry posted July 3, 2009 |
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sleeplessness on summer nights
(katydids and crickets) tanka
by adewpearl
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cacophonous calls of katydids and crickets crowd night's silence out while I who lie awakened cannot slip back into sleep |
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The tanka, the older cousin of haiku, captures a moment in time in five lines with syllables of 5/7/5/7/7.
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