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Rated: E · Poetry · Comedy · #1245927
A totally unserious "tanka".
Beach Proposal Falls Flat.  (A totally unserious "tanka".)

                                              Barra de Navidad. April 9, 2007


SUNSET KILLS ROMANCE
"ROTTEN-TOMATO SUN SLID
DOWN FROM LURID SKY,
THEN SQUISHED ALONG HORIZON,"
COMPLAINS REJECTED SUITOR.


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"The haiku's cousin, the 'tanka' -- with a
syllabic structure of 5,7,5,7,7 -- appears rarely
in English  with its form intact." Stephen Adams, Poetic
Designs.
--Except in tabloids, perhaps.
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