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Tanka
2023 Gypsy's Tanka
: The Desert Queen by Gypsy Blue Rose
For Rules, Please Read My Author Notes

 
 
 
barren arid land

veiled with ever-changing sands

dance with gusting winds

where King Salman bends the knee

to the Desert Queen
 
 

 


 

Author Notes
King Salman of Saudi Arabia Since 2015. I used King Salman for poetic purposes, I don't approve of his government and laws against women.

the bottom picture is a desert rose made of sand

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 your time and kind review.

Gypsy
"The poet waits quietly to paint the unsaid." --Atticus

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