purple passsion ..a tanka poem

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purple passsion ..a tanka poem

Beki
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since 1999-09-15

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Newport Beach, CA, USA

0 posted 1999-09-16 09:25 PM

first breath of lilac
permeates the early dawn
promises passion
as we rise in purple air
dragons sing our soft desire

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"We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion.....the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?"
--John Keating, Dead Poets Society

Denise

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

1 posted 1999-10-04 09:29 PM

I love purple and passion!

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Denise

Skyfyre
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since 1999-08-15

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Sitting in Michael's Lap

2 posted 1999-10-04 10:51 PM

This is such a beautiful image ... sigh

Ummm ... what's a tanka ..?

Nocht

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"Nunc lento sonitu dicunt, morierus"
(Now as I hear this bell tolling softly for another, it says to me, "Thou must die.")

Beki
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since 1999-09-15

Posts 1569
Newport Beach, CA, USA

3 posted 1999-10-05 02:49 AM

Thanks Nocht...short answer...a tanka is a kind of extended haiku...but really haiku is an offspring of tanka. The Japanese long ago would have ritual renga competitions....a renga being a poem composed verse by verse by several poets together, each adding a verse to the last. The verses were called tanka...each a poem in itself but also a part of the whole renga. tankas were connected by haiku, which eventually became a form in its own right.

The form is 5-7-5-7-7.

hoot_owl_rn
Member Patricius

since 1999-07-05

Posts 10750
Glen Hope, PA USA

4 posted 1999-10-05 08:31 AM

Beautiful!!

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Man can not discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

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