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(Hopefully) 1 Poem a week for 52 weeks
#1057504 added October 25, 2023 at 9:42am
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Prompt 12 (16th October 2023)
Tanka

I may not forget
those frozen faces of fear
children caught by war
neither able to escape
or guarantee survival




Tanka is a classic form of Japanese poetry related to the haiku with five unrhymed lines of five, seven, five, seven, and seven syllables. (5, 7, 5, 7, 7)
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