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Footnote: Refraction
Through thick trees' leaves, the
sunlight splits into hundreds
of shafts---each eager
to fall at your stockinged feet,
offering a warm caress.
Kyakuchuu
Through thick trees' leaves, the
sunlight splits into hundreds
of shafts---each eager
to fall at your stockinged feet,
offering a warm caress.
Kyakuchuu
I enjoy it
You are leading me to do that thing I'm so resistent to do ...learn some rules for guidelines. Even if you are unknowingly doing it, you are like a teacher to me poetically. Appreciate that!
© Ground
What a wonderful thing to
What a wonderful thing to say. Thank you so much.
Starward
Tanka
Now, I understand what you are doing. :)
I like the way you write them.
© Ground
Thank you. But your comment
Thank you. But your comment has raised my curiosity. In your understanding, what am I doing?
Starward
Tanka..
You are writing tanka. 5-7-5-7-7. I looked it up. Then noticed it in your lines. I guess I am trying to learn the terms and understand them better.
© Ground
Yes. Proportionately, the
Yes. Proportionately, the tanka outnumber my other poems. But I do not consider them my main work, and I sign them with a Haiku name, Kyakuchuu, which means footnote in Japanese. And they are exactly that---footnotes to my main poetry. Of course, there is also the pun embedded in that title, too, so I have a bit of fun with that as well :)
Starward