Concluding Tri-tanka week (7 of 7)
Tanka week is done
well…when you’ve read this it is
Seven days of verse
each with syllabic sequence
replicated thrice each day
Five and seven and
five and seven and seven
Five lines, thirty-one
syllables to frame each verse
Heralding poetic voice
Tanka week is done
By and by there will be more
This is cathartic
so to it I will return
as it is a favourite
©Jemverse
Picture – ‘Hayase’ by Yoshida Hiroshi (1933)
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