Message To You
Message to you
Tanka poem
By Michelle Morris
04/12/2020
You are out of reach.
Communication is done.
How can we talk now?
Can you read my mind, lovely?
I love and miss you dearly.
© Michelle Morris, 2020
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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