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Japanese Poetry Forms

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Linda Luna offers a brief but thoughtful look at the different forms of Japanese poetry. Come take a look at this informative piece and share it with your friends. Thanks for this post, Linda!

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Lately I have been exploring the many forms of poetry, both new and old, because sometimes I find it easier to write with a blueprint. Ultimately I intend to try my hand at every form I come across, for the sake of expanding my horizons, though undoubtedly I will use some of them only once. My main resource for this study is a website called Shadow Poetry: A Poet’s Writing Resource. Someone has asked me to share what I am learning, and I’m very happy to do so. So here is my first article about poetry, and I’ve created a new tab in the menu, “About Poetry,” for the express purpose of sharing what I’ve learned.

This first installment is about Japanese poetic forms. There are six that I have come across, and all of them are quite short. Evidently, the Japanese are fond of brevity.

Some characteristics…

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A Cafe Introduction /Back Catablog of Linda Luna and – The Darkside Of The Moon blog

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Please take some extra time with a cup of coffee from the Go Dog Go Cafe and learn about Linda Luna and her blog The Darkside Of The Moon in this Cafe Introduction/Back Catablog of Linda and her blog. Don’t miss some really great Love Poems. Give Linda a visit on her blog.

Go Dog Go Café

By Charles Robert Lindholm

Hi Everyone,

I’d like you to meet a Friend of mine – Linda Luna.  Linda’s blog is “The Darkside Of The Moon – the side of me most people never see“.  Linda has only been blogging on WordPress a short while but has shared some beautiful poems that give you a real insight into her heart and soul.

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She Whispered

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Owen’s post “She Whispered” on No Talent For Certainty blog is a great journey through a life of emotions, relationships and spirituality! Learn about Forgiveness and Forgetting. Please visit Owens site and share this post with friends.

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She Whispered

She whispered to me, “Owen –
I would like to be your girl.
But you must take me everywhere.
I want to see the world.”

So mesmerized, I took her hand,
Across the world we went:
And all I was, and all I had
Most certainly was spent

To give her all of anything
I thought she might desire –
But still, she whispered to me,
“Let’s go higher, Owen. Higher.”

But higher I could never go
For I was just a guy
Without the soaring resources
It takes to reach the sky

One day, she whispered to me,
“You and I know this is done.
It’s time for me to go; this part
Of our race has been run.”

I thought it wrong and hated her
And hated richer men:
And it was years and years before
I saw her face again

By now, I was not poor; but…

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