. Poetry from The Great In-Between

Tuesday, May 7, 2024

 I still searched for you

Throughout endless falling rain


My mind still screaming


Will I ever see my queen

Or are you gone forever


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 


(Tanka)

The tanka is a thirty-one-syllable poem, traditionally written in a single unbroken line. A form of waka, Japanese song or verse, tanka translates as “short song,” and is better known in its five-line, 5/7/5/7/7 syllable count form.

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