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Victorian gold

Victorian gold

immutably beautiful

heavy in my hand

 

stern monarch in widows weeds

stares blindly into the west

 

(This poem is an example of the Chinese Tanka. Like the haiku it is a closed form with a fixed number of syllables per line (5,7,5.7,7)

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