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Driftwood - A Tanka Poem (original poem)

I do so like driftwood

It is aged and calcified

With a dry brittleness

and a battered skin

That crackles; Feels like wisdom

 

(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.)

 

This was the Fourth of five photos paired with original poems created exclusively for this special exhibit.

 

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Uploaded on April 19, 2019