Back to Lazy Day Tanka

4 of 12 in the ‘About Brighton’ series

Breakfast in Brighton
November morning sunshine
follows after rain
Both providing sustenance
for lazy Sunday slowness

©Jemverse

Series photo is from the front cover of a First Edition of a book by Antony Dale from 1951

‘Lazy Day Tanka‘ was first published in November 2016

A tanka is a five-line non-rhyming poem of Japanese origin dating back almost 1200 years. Using simile, metaphor and personification, the five lines must follow a syllabic sequence of 5, 7, 5, 7, 7.

Advertisement

Tags: . poetry blog, Brighton, Jemverse, painting with words, poem, poet, Poetry, poets corner, tanka, wordsmith, writing poetry