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Tanka--HAREM
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cinquian/tanka Inside a house of folly
teemed with raw beauties
like an urn, they await
to be sated utterly
written 12/03/2002
Inside a house of folly
teemed with raw beauties
like an urn, they await
to be sated utterly
written 12/03/2002
perhaps there was a harem in
"the house of the rising sun":
She lead me towards love
by soft slycerin pale hands
through the octagon curtain
of beads like technicolor rain
suspend by the threads of night.
Your Tanka was well written. I get all the feeling
of emptyness by the word "urn" which then paradoxidly
turns on the last line "waiting to be sated utterly".
I "utterly" love this poem for the imagery it evokes
almost as if I was there in the place of "folly"
Bravo!