#Today’s Tanka sometimes with Picture

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Today’s Tanka sometimes with Picture 29: Door

What kind of world

does this shiny black door

lead to at all?

What awaits beyond this door?

Is it joy or despair?

(2022.08.24)

扉

この黒光りする扉は いったいどんな世界に 通じるのだろう？

この扉の先に待つのは、 歓喜か絶望か？

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"You should be kissed, and often. And by someone who knows how."

This was taken before the fact, but I got got by a rottweiler today. It wasn’t malicious, was just a bad situation made worse by the excitement of the dogs & a very spooked horse (not Gable). But Gable proved just how much he loved me today by standing with me and being so patient and understanding with everything that went wrong today.

Sometimes, that just happens when you work with horses. Hence the saying: “You gotta get back on the horse.”

But Gable went that extra mile today when standing with me, comforting me and reassuring me through the pain after the dog attack. Considering where I got chewed on, it hurt so bad that I felt nauseous & like I was going to pass out. I was forced to drop down for a while, and Gable stayed close to make sure I was okay and give me the strength I needed to get up to the house for treatment. 

Gable isn’t “my horse.” I help out at a small-time horse rescue, and Gable is one of our rescues. His story kind of confuses me; he’s a retired champion reigning horse, his owner has oodles of money & lives across the street, but he’s still here at our rescue and has been all but abandoned by his owner. Some pictures I post of Gable show the side-effects of what is assumed to be his depression: he dropped a lot of weight, so his ribs show, his spine pokes out, and his hips are very obvious. 

But here’s the thing, Gable is my horse. I trust him so completely; he follows me around, comes up to me when I call for him, & we just vibe really well. My heart went out for him when the lady who also owns the rescue told me, “He’s lost two of his women before,” (I’m not out as trans to them yet, so--) “He probably thought he was about to lose you too.” 

I understand where he’s coming from though, feeling abandoned like that. Truth be told, Gable & I didn’t get along when I first come to this rescue. I didn’t trust him, since he hates the horse I was working with before (Tanka), & would usually give me the epic glare when I was out to the pasture. But Tanka’s a retired barrel racer who’s lame in all four legs, & after getting a rock lodged in his hoof (that I removed same day), he wasn’t fit for any interaction & I was recommended Gable.

Ever since then, he & I have been attached at the hip. 

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Her first book, Grinding my ink, appeared when she was in her forties and received the Haiku Society of America Book Award. Since then, she has published ten collections: This Moment; The Smell of Rust; Shadow Lines; Always Filling, Always Full; What Remains: Japanese Americans in Internment Camps; Just This; Winter Deepens; Daffodils at Twilight; One Leaf Detaches; and Shadow Man. Chula has been awarded fellowships to the Vermont Studio Center, The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and Playa. Grants from the Oregon Arts Commission and Oregon Literary Arts have supported collaboration projects with artists, musicians, photographers, and a quilt artist. She has been a featured speaker and workshop leader at writers’ conferences throughout the United States, as well as in Poland, Peru, Canada, and Japan. Chula served as President of the Tanka Society of America and as poet laureate for Friends of Chamber Music. After living in Kyoto for twelve years, she now makes her home in Portland, Oregon.

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Intimacy Post

The word intimacy can be loosely used in today’s age. When people speak of intimacy, a person often associates the word with love, passion, and desire. Much like these feelings, intimacy can be related to any other kind of relationship that contains closeness, trust, and vulnerability. Although, when thinking of these terms, it is often imagined that it involves face to face interactions, however, what if there was an another way to prompt these feelings such as the use of a technological device or a software system? In the article, “Love Messaging Mobile Phone Txting Seen Through the Lens of Tanka Poetry, Manghani makes a reference to MIT Press Mcarthy and Wright, stating, “our interactions with technology can involve emotions, values, ideals, intentions, and strong feelings’. A person may feel isolated in life sometimes and the use of  technology as a friend or companion may be used to fill the loneliness or void they are experiencing.

The Movie “Her” is a prime example of one alternative outlet of creating intimacy. In the movie, a poet/writer develops a bond with his operating system that quickly develops into a romantic relationship. Much like a human relationship, Theo (the main character) and Samantha (the operating system) become familiar with each other. Throughout the movie, Theo and Samantha  become intimate with each other, sharing Theo’s past with Samantha as well as likes and dislikes. Because Samantha is coded to follow any and every instruction that is given, she aspires to every need and want of Theo’s. This in turn creates an element of closeness in proximity with Samantha.  The article Theory, Culture & Society states ‘proximity no longer requires physical close- ness’, writes Bauman, ‘but physical closeness no longer determines proximity’ (2003: 62). Even though, she is not a physical being, her voice and softness creates a closeness for Theo.  Pettman also explains in his article that these people (or men) are aware that “their ‘girlfriend’ is a computer program, but this does not diminish the erotic charge and psychological impact of the text- messages they receive in response to their SMS courtship.” Theo experienced just this in the movie in regard to his relationship with Samantha. Although Samantha was never able to physically come to form for Theo, she did do her best to fulfill his desires. She attempted to do this by hiring a sexual replacement for Theo.  This interaction did not work for Theo because he was already in love with who he pictured Samantha to be. He did not seem to care or mind that he could not physically see her, because he was able to feel her emotionally and spiritually through her words.  Pettman makes a claim in his article stating that “all communication is cybernetic, and love is a privileged, semi-flexible, semi-coherent, ingenious, and intricately codified form of communication” (202). He explains that love is a working progress and is coded with different meanings. It is how a person chooses to decode and interpret those meanings, face to face and cybernetically, that will tell the true relationship.

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Poetry Challenge

I’ve been thinking of a poetry challenge that I could do to get better at writing, I was thinking about giving myself 2-3 days for every poem, the order is alphabetical, and there are 55 different types, thoughts?

Warning this is very long

ABC- A poem that has five lines and creates a mood, picture, or feeling. Lines 1 through 4 are made up of words, phrases or clauses while the first word of each line is in alphabetical order. Line 5 is one sentence long and begins with any letter.

Acrostic- Poetry that certain letters, usually the first in each line form a word or message when read in a sequence.

Ballad-A poem that tells a story similar to a folk tale or legend which often has a repeated refrain.

Ballade- Poetry which has three stanzas of seven, eight or ten lines and a shorter final stanza of four or five. All stanzas end with the same one line refrain.

Blank verse- A poem written in unrhymed iambic pentameter and is often unobtrusive. The iambic pentameter form often resembles the rhythms of speech.

Bio- A poem written about one self's life, personality traits, and ambitions.

Burlesque- Poetry that treats a serious subject as humor.

Canzone- Medieval Italian lyric style poetry with five or six stanzas and a shorter ending stanza.

Carpe Diem- Latin expression that means 'seize the day.' Carpe diem poems have a theme of living for today.

Cinquain- Poetry with five lines. Line 1 has one word (the title). Line 2 has two words that describe the title. Line 3 has three words that tell the action. Line 4 has four words that express the feeling, and line 5 has one word which recalls the title.

Classicism- Poetry which holds the principles and ideals of beauty that are characteristic of Greek and Roman art, architecture, and literature.

Concrete- Also known as "size poetry". Concrete poetry uses typographical arrangements to display an element of the poem. This can either be through re-arrangement of letters of a word or by arranging the words as a shape.

Couplet- This type of poem is two lines which may be rhymed or unrhymed.

Dramatic Monologue- A type of poem which is spoken to a listener. The speaker addresses a specific topic while the listener unwittingly reveals details about him/herself.

Elegy- A sad and thoughtful poem about the death of an individual.

Epic- An extensive, serious poem that tells the story about a heroic figure.

Epigram- A very short, ironic and witty poem usually written as a brief couplet or quatrain. The term is derived from the Greek epigramma meaning inscription.

Epitaph- A commemorative inscription on a tomb or mortuary monument written to praise the deceased.

Epithalamic (Epithalamion)- A poem written in honor of the bride and groom.

Free verse (vers libre- )Poetry written in either rhymed or unrhymed lines that have no set fixed metrical pattern.

Found- Poetry created by taking words, phrases, and passages from other sources and re-framing them by adding spaces, lines, or by altering the text with additions or subtractions.

Ghazal- A short lyrical poem that arose in Urdu. It is between 5 and 15 couplets long. Each couplet contains its own poetic thought but is linked in rhyme that is established in the first couplet and continued in the second line of each pair. The lines of each couplet are equal in length. Themes are usually connected to love and romance. The closing signature often includes the poet's name or allusion to it.

Haiku- A Japanese poem composed of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five morae, usually containing a season word.

Horatian Ode- Short lyric poem written in two or four-line stanzas, each with its the same metrical pattern, often addressed to a friend and deal with friendship, love and the practice of poetry. It is named after its creator, Horace.

Iambic Pentameter- One short syllable followed by one long one, five sets in a row. Example: la-LAH la-LAH la-LAH la-LAH la-LAH. Used extensively in sonnets.

Idyll (Idyl)- Poetry that either depicts a peaceful, idealized country scene or a long poem telling a story about heroes of a bye gone age.

Irregular (Pseudo-Pindaric or Cowleyan) ode- Neither the three part form of the pindaric ode nor the two or four-line stanza of the Horatian ode. It is characterized by irregularity of verse and structure and lack of correspondence between the parts.

Italian Sonnet- A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba followed by six lines with a rhyme pattern of cdecde or cdcdcd.

Lay- A long narrative poem, especially one that was sung by medieval minstrels.

Limerick- A short sometimes vulgar, humorous poem consisting of five anapestic lines. Lines 1, 2, and 5 have seven to ten syllables, rhyme and have the same verbal rhythm. The 3rd and 4th lines have five to seven syllables, rhyme and have the same rhythm.

List- A poem that is made up of a list of items or events. It can be any length and rhymed or unrhymed.

Lyric- A poem that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet. Many songs are written using this type of writing.

Memoriam Stanza- A quatrain in iambic tetrameter with a rhyme scheme of abba.

Name- Poetry that tells about the word. It uses the letters of the word for the first letter of each line.

Narrative- A poem that tells a story.

Ode- A lengthy lyric poem typically of a serious or meditative nature and having an elevated style and formal stanza structure.

Pastoral- A poem that depicts rural life in a peaceful, romanticized way.

Petrarchan- A 14-line sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming abbaabba followed by a sestet of cddcee or cdecde.

Pindaric Ode- A ceremonious poem consisting of a strophe followed by a an antistrophe with the same metrical pattern and concluding with a summary line in a different meter.

Quatrain- A stanza or poem consisting of four lines. Lines 2 and 4 must rhyme while having a similar number of syllables.

Rhyme- A rhyming poem has the repetition of the same or similar sounds of two or more words, often at the end of the line.

Rhyme Royal- A type of poetry consisting of stanzas having seven lines in iambic pentameter.

Romanticism- A poem about nature and love while having emphasis on the personal experience.

Rondeau- A lyrical poem of French origin having 10 or 13 lines with two rhymes and with the opening phrase repeated twice as the refrain.

Senryu- A short Japanese style poem, similar to haiku in structure that treats human beings rather than nature: Often in a humorous or satiric way.

Sestina- A poem consisting of six six-line stanzas and a three-line envoy. The end words of the first stanza are repeated in varied order as end words in the other stanzas and also recur in the envoy.

Shakespearean- A 14-line sonnet consisting of three quatrains of abab cdcd efef followed by a couplet, gg. Shakespearean sonnets generally use iambic pentameter.

Shape- Poetry written in the shape or form of an object. This is a type of concrete poetry.

Sonnet- A lyric poem that consists of 14 lines which usually have one or more conventional rhyme schemes.

Sound- Intended primarily for performance, sound poetry is sometimes referred to as "verse without words". This form is seen as the bridging between literary and musical composition in which the phonetics of human speech are used to create a poem.

Tanka- A Japanese poem of five lines, the first and third composed of five syllables and the other seven.

Terza Rima- A type of poetry consisting of 10 or 11 syllable lines arranged in three-line tercets.

Verse- A single metrical line of poetry.

Villanelle- A 19-line poem consisting of five tercets and a final quatrain on two rhymes. The first and third lines of the first tercet repeat alternately as a refrain closing the succeeding stanzas and joined as the final couplet of the quatrain.

Visual- The visual arrangement of text, images, and symbols to help convey the meaning of the work. Visual poetry is sometimes referred to as a type of concrete poetry.

This is all pretty much copy past from this website:  http://www2.poemofquotes.com/articles/poetry_forms.php this website also has some more descriptive and extensive ways of explaining on how to write these types of poems. This list include some that are definitely my style, and others that are very far from my comfort zone, but I’ll try anyway, I don’t know when I will start this; probably over the summer, because there will be no school.

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Today’s Tanka sometimes with Picture 28

Wind funeral

baby mouse

Died and gather

Small ants

“Bird funeral”

Is it okay to say that?

(2020.08.27)

風葬

ネズミの子

死して集まる

小アリたち

鳥葬なりと

言うも可なるか

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Today’s Tanka sometimes with Picture 27

Forget-you-grass

It dilutes

sadness of love

Chin agrees with that too.

Only immerse you

Forget-you-grass = cigarettes. "Chin" is the self-proclaimed king.

(2020.08.15)

恋の憂さ

まぎれさすなる

忘れ草

朕もそれにぞ

浸るなりける

忘れ草＝タバコ。朕（ちん）とは王者の自称。

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Today’s Tanka sometimes with Picture 26

3 years old

promise to receive

peonies

The flowers are fragrant

clove incense

(2024.05.02)

短歌２６

３年越し

貰う約束

芍薬を

花は香るや

クローブの香

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Today's Tanka Sometimes with Picture 23

early morning

waterway flowing

voice of water

as long as this sound exists

people are safe

今日の一首

朝早く

水路流れる

水の声

この音あるなら

人は安泰

(2018.08.25)

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Today’s Tanka sometimes with picture 25

Mt.Asama

White peaks

Many of them surround

In this place

When I take a walk

I feel a peace of mind

(2019.12.29)

白き峰

あまたが囲む

この土地で

散歩するとき

心安らぐ

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Today's Tanka Sometimes with Picture 24

Through all summer

You have scared the crows

Mr.Scarecrow

They don't need you now

It’s Holiday break

It was a clever scarecrow that made it look like there was a real person there.

(2018.12.29)

夏中を

���ラス嚇（おど）かし

案山子（かかし）くん

今は用なく

休みおりけり

現実の人がいるように見せる巧妙な案山子でした。

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Today's Tanka 22:Sometimes with Picture

Covered with snow

Flock to the fields

Sparrows

Though without food

I see

雪被る

田に群れ集う

スズメたち

食べ物なきと

見るにあれども

(2016.11.24)

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Today's Tanka 18:sometimes with picture

spew out

the water is cool

at the waterside

Male and female kappa friends

play love songs

    Mitsuhiro

噴き出づる

水も涼しき

水辺にて

河童仲良く

愛の曲弾く

   光宏

The other day, I saw a blue killifish in a lotus pond, and the carving in the park (Yasegawa Park) is interesting, so I will give you a photo and a poem (tanka) inscribed with it.

Kappa is a cute water demon.

(2016.07.28)

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Today's tanka-4:sometimes with picture

Shunsou hishida(菱田春草）：Black Cat

paddy field standing on the shore black cat

what are you doing meditate?

水田の 畔に佇む 黒猫よ

なんじ何をか 瞑想するや?

26.07.2013

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Today's tanka-1: sometimes with pictures

many years just raised honeysuckle(スイカズラ）

when I picked flowers smells like peach

スイカズラ(:suikazura) is a honeysuckle herb. As a medicinal effect, it is effective for cough, catarrh, asthma, etc. It contains salicylic acid and people take aspirin. Can be taken as a tea, but may cause vomiting if consumed in large amounts. (From "Herb Encyclopedia 110".)

However, when I actually made tea, the peach scent seemed to fly away. So far I have neglected this herb even though I introduced it into my garden.

18.05.2013

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Today's Tanka -10:Sometimes with Picture

Dismantling about to be done Old mansion

how many dramas how do you see

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解体を 今にもされる 古屋敷

いくつのドラマ なんじ見てこし

I saw a building that occupied a corner of an old residential area that was about to be demolished.

(2014.03.11)