Rains beats heavily
Upon my morning window
While I spin my words
Like a spider’s silken web
I yearn to capture your heart
© 2017 Christine Elizabeth Ray – All rights Reserved
Rains beats heavily
Upon my morning window
While I spin my words
Like a spider’s silken web
I yearn to capture your heart
© 2017 Christine Elizabeth Ray – All rights Reserved
Brave & Reckless 
Ah, the Tanka 🙂 I think I prefer tanka to haiku, with haiku there are some words you just can’t use because they blow the syllable count, but tanka gives you a bit more headroom
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This is actually my very first Tanka. Definitely a form I need to play around with more.
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Happy first tanka 🙂 Nice one 🙂
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Thank you!
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It’s beautiful. I wish I liked to play around with established methods. I’ve written a few haikus and tankas. I just never feel like it works for me. but it definitely does for you.
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I am sure I look like a crazy person counting syllables on my leg. I approach them as puzzles to be solved and I don’t worry too much about them being nature themed. We did some autobiographical haikus in my creative writing class in the Spring and those were fun.
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Christine- I always learn something from you- Thank you!!! And it is a beautiful poem.
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Thank you! I am not a big traditional poetry writer but I felt like a Tanka would be a fun challenge. I struggle with brevity
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