Poetry Place Collected Poems

morning routines tanaga

Hot coffee starts my morning.
watching the news mid-morning.
Too much coffee a warning,
a migraine a forewarning.

Afternoon I drink hot tea.
Contemplating to be.
What is to become of me?
Turning on music filled with glee.

As the sunsets, I drink red wine.
With my wife, all is just fine.
While looking at the moonshine,
As we sit down start to dine.



The Tanaga is an ancient Filipino form which has evolved from a complete poem to a series of stanzas. The structure consists of four mono-rhymed lines with seven syllables per line, as described and demonstrated in the following links:

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