| General Poetry posted May 30, 2021 |
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5/7/5/7/7 Tanka for the Japanese Poetry Club
His Secrets Bind Her
by Gypsy Blue Rose
If You Would Like To Join the Japanese Poetry Club, please check my author notes
with the mark of concubine she’ll not bear his kids nor shall host parties for friends — she awaits in penumbras |
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Penumbras= darkness, shadows
TANKA is a Japanese poetic form that originated in the Japanese Imperial Court, 1,200 years ago. It can embrace all emotions of love, pity, suffering, loneliness, or death. Tanka is succinct and may not exceed 31 syllables in this format (5/7/5/7/7) but it can be LESS than 31 syllables in a short/long/short/long/long format because Japanese and English syllables are not the same. Personification, metaphor, simile are permitted in Tanka. Capitalization and punctuation should only be used when necessary. No end rhymes. Alliteration should be avoided or used sparingly. A pivot line, usually on the third line, can be read sensibly with lines 1 and 2, and also sensibly with lines 4 and 5, a property that can be used to introduce ambiguity and resonance into the poem. for rules click here
artwork: Chie Yoshii
Thank you very much for reading and reviewing my poem.
Gypsy
TANKA is a Japanese poetic form that originated in the Japanese Imperial Court, 1,200 years ago. It can embrace all emotions of love, pity, suffering, loneliness, or death. Tanka is succinct and may not exceed 31 syllables in this format (5/7/5/7/7) but it can be LESS than 31 syllables in a short/long/short/long/long format because Japanese and English syllables are not the same. Personification, metaphor, simile are permitted in Tanka. Capitalization and punctuation should only be used when necessary. No end rhymes. Alliteration should be avoided or used sparingly. A pivot line, usually on the third line, can be read sensibly with lines 1 and 2, and also sensibly with lines 4 and 5, a property that can be used to introduce ambiguity and resonance into the poem. for rules click here
artwork: Chie Yoshii
Thank you very much for reading and reviewing my poem.
Gypsy
Club entry for the "TANKA POEM" event in "JAPANESE POETRY CLUB". Locate a writing club.
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