Excellent Pair of Tanka Poems 2023 Gypsy's Tanka : ~ The First Cut is the Deepest ~ by Gypsy Blue Rose Dedicated to Pedro, my first love

another night bathing neath the full moon     with lunar mist— my body is burning aflame with yearning and desire       memories of us live anew in my tender heart— tingle sparks ignite feelings in a sea of time when you and I were one           Recognized Author Notes Dedicated to Pedro, my first love. Title - The First Cut is the Deepest is a song by Cat Stevens 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 very much for taking the time to read and review my poem. Gypsy "Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason." - Novalis pictures from pinterest

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