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Japanese Poems

No, they're not written in Japanese, but they are based on a Japanese style. They are called Haiku and Tanka, Haiku and three-line seventeen-syllable poem, Tanka a five-line thirty-one syllable poem. Here they are!

Haiku...


FLOWER

Silken petals curl
Framing the crumbly middle
In vibrant colors


SUMMER DAY

Parched, yellowing grass
Merciless, blistering sun
Warm, sun-baked pavement


Tanka...

TWILIGHT

The silver sliver
Comes to a rest behind the hills
The suns' heat fading
Leaving the dark velvet grass
Bathed in a blue, dusky glow

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