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Tanka

Talia Garza Hernandez

Tanka
Your beautiful head
inspires me to write poems
that disappear
across the sands of lost time
a great ilusión to fail

About this poem

A poem about the happiness of writing tanka. The head isn’t a person is based on Plato.

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Written on January 14, 2024

Submitted on January 14, 2024

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCDE
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 119
Words 23
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5
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4 Comments
  • niko_gio
    niko_gio
    A muse, a disappearance, a disappointment. It happens, I know. :/
    LikeReply3 months ago
  • alanswansea18
    alanswansea18
    Why are you still silver you should be in the Gold section.
    LikeReply8 months ago
  • luisestable1
    luisestable1
    It could be hard for some readers to see this disappearance, the one the poem talks about. To make that connection from the lines of the poem one has to stretch the imagination I think.
    LikeReply 111 months ago
  • alanswansea18
    alanswansea18
    Great job keep at it.
    LikeReply 111 months ago

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