A Wood Adrift (Tanka Poem)

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"A Wood Adrift"


Rotten piece of wood

Thrown aside and then ignored

Only to be kicked

Into the wide, open sea

Float or sink, only fate knows

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The Japanese tanka is a thirty-one-syllable poem, traditionally written in a single unbroken line. A form of waka, Japanese song or verse, tanka translates as "short song," and is better known in its five-line, 5/7/5/7/7 syllable count form.

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That piece of wood will become part of the immense sea.