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Gogyohka Poem - Japanese Poetry Club
Worthy Opponent
by Rachelle Allen
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When a storm is brewing
it is wiser
to be a solid rock
than a dainty flower
on a delicate stem
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Author Notes
Gogyohka is a five-line free-style Japanese poetic form with no strict rules on syllable count but as brief as possible. Any theme. Lines are grammatically connected. Alliteration, personification, and metaphor are okay but never rhyme. Japanese poets have written gogyohka since the 1910s. However, they did not name the form until 1983 by poet Enta Kusakabe.
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