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Rated: E · Poetry · Nature · #537160
A tanka about the sea for Writer's Cramp
White foam laboring,
over savage waves in rage.
Uncharted waters
lapping desolation’s edge,
salted with God’s vast patience.

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Tanka, a Japanese poetry form, has five lines with 5-7-5-7-7 syllables.

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