He pleads wicked wants
the willing locked in strong box
Love's a deaf-mute lass
She bites his shilling and mocks
glassy stares of disint'rest
Week one of NaPoWriMo concludes, as ReadWritePoem suggests love, funny side up. The task was to write a tanka on an amusing encounter. My personal experiences with romance don't lend themselves well to humor or poetry, so I went with a made-up bit of the twisted.
4 comments:
Great fun!
For a good site about tanka, and one that helps dispel the urban myth of syllable counting, try: tankaonline
all my best,
Alan
With Words
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Frnacis,
Good one!
Pamela
Francis, nicely done! I really like the rhythm.
Shari
@Alan I like the syllable counts, just because it tends to rein me in, but I also realize I'm not writing a true tanka.
@Pamela Thanks... love's not any easy topic for me.
@Shari I often fare better with sound than subject ;)
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