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Tanka
2023 Gypsy's Tanka
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Awakening Tug of War
by Gypsy Blue Rose
For Rules, Please Read My Author Notes
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awakening tug of war
unwilling to breakaway
from dreams of you—
amidst the rose dust of dawn
and my fading little death
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Author Notes
The "Little Death" or (La petite mort) is an expression that means "a brief loss of consciousness" and in modern usage refers specifically to "the sensation of post orgasm as likened to death."
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
painting by Ikenaga Yasunari
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