A ‘Magnetic Poem’ tanka
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dark dusk colored clouds sweetly secret soft sun shine loving light beneath grows like long lonely tendril poetry upon water

Notes
- Once again, I stuck with the ‘Nature Poet’ virtual magnet set for this poem; but I am ready to move on, I think, particularly because it seems that no changes are made in the sets of word magnets available to me week after week;
- This week, I opted for a tanka, rather than a haiku, which was more challenging, given the limited amount of magnets;
- Tanka traditionally have a ‘turn’ in the 3rd line, which I attempted to employ, transitioning from the sun above to its light upon the waters;
- For this particular poem, I drew inspiration from my own haibun, which I wrote just last week;
- That haibun of mine led me to search for and discover the stunning sunset photograph above, which I then attempted to portray in this tanka.
– Sweetly secret soft sunshine –
Ah, that’s lovely.
thanks so much!
-David