New Beginnings – A Tanka

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New Beginnings

As winds start to blow
Autumn takes the last flower 
Dropping withered seeds
Back to hardened, fallow earth
Destined to be born again


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Frank Tassone is hosting D’Verse Poets tonight
and has prompted us with Jisei (Japanese Death Poems)

Jisei were often written in waka (tanka) or haiku, but death poems are not restricted to those forms. What is essential is the expression of both imminent death and the significance of life in the face of it. In this sense, Jisei is the poetry of both memorial and celebration.







	


	

			

	

		
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		I have been writing poetry since I was a child and it has helped in the good times and bad times. I am always looking within to find the answers to life's problems and to write thought-provoking poetry and prose.
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    No matter what, no matter who, no matter when, the seeds of new life are always waiting in the wings to germinate when the time is right.  Very daoist, Christine!
    

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    I love the sounds in your tanka, Christine, the ‘ow’ in ‘blow’, ‘flower’ and ‘fallow’ together with ‘withered’ makes a powerful wuthering sound. The ending is full of hope.
    

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      Thank you Kim.  For some reason I was back in primary school and we were doing nature study and learning how to germinate seeds ☺️ Happy memories.
      

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      Thank you so much Rob.  I love squeezing it into a tanka.  I do post Haikus every single day … they teach
      
 me to condense my thoughts ☺️
      

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