8/3/2021
Today's poetic form is the Japanese "Tanka". Similar to haiku, the tanka is a rather small poem with a syllable restriction per line. It has no rhymes -just like a haiku- but it allows for more freedom when it comes to the theme of the poem.
Here's more about it:
https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/tanka-bigger-and-more-relaxed-than-a-haiku
I do not know why
I am asked to patch things up
when the wounds are untamed
still leaking blood from the words
you viciously etched in my head
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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐞𝐬ᵖᵒᵉᵗʳʸ
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