Sunday 6 March 2011

For Love - Tanka




With colour and light

fragrances and sweet passion-

This moment of Truth!

Crossing my threshold - stealthily,

Love, it cleaves into my Soul!






 6 March, 2011


Syllable break up of the lines, 5/7/5/7/7


With/ co/lour /and /light (5)

fra/gran/ces/ and/ sweet/ pa/ssion- (7)

This/ moment/ of /Truth! (5)

Cro/ssing /my/ thre/shold/ - steal/thi/ly, (7)

Love,/ it /cleaves /in/to /my /Soul! (7)




Tanka, like Haiku, is again a form of Japanese Lyric Poetry.

[As you know by now, :) ] A Haiku works with 17 syllables arranged in 3 lines of 5/7/5 syllables to each line, and evokes an aspect of nature and the seasons, with the last line holding the punch so to speak.

A few Tanka here and Haiku, here and here and here



Tanka on the other hand gives the writer more space to work with – 31 syllables, arranged in 5 lines of 5/7/5/7/7 syllables each. Tanka is an older form of the lyric in Japanese… dating to 13 centuries ago, while Haiku is just about 3 centuries ago..

Tanka was mainly written between lovers, as society had accepted the fact that a man’s dallying with another woman, other than his wife was normal!! After the man departed early in the morning, he would send a Tanka to his lady love with his message of love..




7 comments:

  1. :) When love seeps into the heart - can there be a greater blessing!

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  2. Shal... thank you :)you say it true!

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  3. just another way to express it....it has always been eternal.... :)

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  4. Must have been a wonderful moment of truth :)

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  5. Like a white light cleaved to colurs by a prism
    so too love, on life. causing a mighty spasm
    and at the same time bridging a chasm
    for wounds of time offering a healing cataplasm.

    Thanks I learnt something new today teacher. :)

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