A December Tanka

‘Winter’ … WHB – Pen & Ink 2017 

 

Bright the winter sun

Burns in the short day’s heaven

As each day goes by

I think of Bethlehem’s star

Wishing the year ‘Au Revoir’.

 

Tanka is a genre of classical Japanese poetry meaning a short poem, and one of the major genres of Japanese literature.

A Tanka consist of five units (often treated as separate lines when romanized or translated) usually with the pattern of 5-7-5-7-7 syllables per unit or line). Wikipedia.

I have again ended my Tanka with a rhyming couplet.

Wistful Erotica

ACROSTIC VERSE (Two related verses)

W hen our paths crossed those years ago
I n time long past and place afar
S o young and pure the afterglow
T hat kissing then ‘neath that bright star
F orever memories did bestow
U ntil that required au revoir
L ost us a life and let us go

E ach and every time I try,
R esolutely to be free,
O ver the air your soft words fly,
T ouching, teasing, tempting me,
I n a whisper and a sigh,
C hiding senses your charms to see;
A nd I’ll surrender by and by.