That this is right, or: What’s left
A Tanka
what’s left of a home
is not always less than love
sometimes it's a hand
finding the nearest shoulder
and knowing that this is rightTanka Tuesday: Photo & Tanka
For Tanka Tuesday, we are encouraged to look through old photos and choose one connected to a meaningful memory. The memory can be happy, sad, frightening, funny, thoughtful, or anything else.
After choosing the photo, we should identify the season connected to it and use words that suggest that season, though they do not need to be formal kigo words. The prompt invites us to write one, two, or three tanka inspired by what the photo says to us or how it makes us feel.
Tanka?
Tanka are five-part poems, often written as five lines in translation, with a traditional 5-7-5-7-7 sound-unit pattern. The first three units, 5-7-5, are called the kami-no-ku, or “upper phrase.” The final two units, 7-7, are called the shimo-no-ku, or “lower phrase.”
Let’s write poetry together!
When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option. You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.
–Ben Harper (b. 1969)
Would you like to create poetry with me and have a completed poem of yours featured here at the Skeptic’s Kaddish? I am very excited to have launched the ‘Poetry Partners’ initiative and am looking forward to meeting and creating with you… Check it out!
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