Cold Wet Night
A Tanka
Rain on the trailer
Beating down its dismal song
Drop, by cold, wet, drop
A monotonous rhythm
Driving home … the loneliness
© Ken Chawkin
Published in This Enduring Gift – A Flowering of Fairfield Poetry, 2010. See my other published poems in that book.
This poem was written in the presence of my muse, Sally Peden (Sali), as I was demonstrating to her how easy it was to write a haiku, which extended to this tanka. It tells the story of what was happening at the time. It was a very blissful process. Nothing depressing or lonely about it. I just selected the words that best conveyed such an image and accompanying mood.
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April 10, 2017 at 10:55 am |
[…] me to refine it even more, taking it to the intended level. He published it, five haiku, and a tanka, and later selected it as POEM OF THE DAY: Poetry – The Art of the Voice, by […]
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April 13, 2020 at 1:27 pm |
About 6 years later I wrote this short 4-line Teapot Poem. Scroll down to Responses, the 5th one, to read how this poem came about. https://theuncarvedblog.com/2016/05/14/teapot-poem-by-ken-chawkin/
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