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I've got to find my way back. I hope this will spur me back into creative writing.
#833817 added November 18, 2014 at 7:30am
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November 11, 2014 Katauta
Anticipation


Waiting for your arrival


Longing for your touch





There you stand waiting


Desire clearly expressed


Sparkling in your blue eyes








Katauta: The Katauta is an unrhymed Japanese form consisting of 17 or 19 syllables. The poem is a three- lined poem with the syllable count of 5, 7, 5 or 7 syllables for the final line.


The Katauta form was used for poems addressed to a lover. A single katauta is considered incomplete or a half poem, a pair of katuatas using the syllable count of 5, 7, 7 is called a sedoka.


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