1/3/20: waking up early
Five in the morning
all I want to do
is hit the snooze
only Friday’s light traffic
saves me from being late
#tanka #kyoka #micropoetry #poetry
“Five in the morning…” a #tanka / #kyoka (1/3/20)
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[…] Kyoka is to the senryu what tanka is to the haiku. That is, Kyoka is a five-line form of parody poetry. While tanka savors the nature/human nature intersection with heart and pathos, kyoka explores just human nature, usually in as satirical a way as possible. Or, at the very least, in a self-deprecating way, as one of mine demonstrates: […]
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Frank J. Tassone 
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