We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage / And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, / We Poets of the proud old lineage / Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why ... (James Elroy Flecker)

11.2.24

A tanka challenge ...

 

a tanka challenge

for Valentine’s Day: ‘write on 

not being in love’ –

but I'm never not in love

(albeit there's no-one new)



Form: tanka


I'm sharing this with Poets and Storytellers United at Friday Writings #114.






23 comments:

  1. Love it I'm never not in love Good on you

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  2. I can relate to that... never not in love... it's complicated, crazy and difficult- and it should be :)

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  3. No one new suggests a string of an old love sees life through. :)

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  4. Be still my heart! I LOVE tanka, even more than haiku! This is wonderful, Rosemary.

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    1. Thanks, Helen. I too love tanka even more than haiku (and they are somewhat easier to write).

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  5. Cheers to all who stay "in love"!

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  6. Never not in love....with a person? That is an interesting concept. For me that would be a Promethean torture.....Rall

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    1. Goodness, I wonder why? If the love turned out sadly, I suppose.... I've loved deeply more than once, and find that if it's real it's lasting – and by now can remember them all fondly. If there is lingering sadness in some cases, well it was worth it nevertheless!

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  7. Nice Tanka, Rosemary. It would have fit if you'd have changed the last line for here. To, "albeit there's no-one knew", just add the letter "k".
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    1. So it would! And perhaps even more romantic. But I'm being autobiographical here.

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    2. Oh of course – your version would have fitted better with the theme of secrets.

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