A ‘Magnetic Poem’ tanka
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broken man must laugh
delicious caramel voice
like magic poison
his lips drink of her rhythms
as haunted heart slowly decays
Notes
- For this poem, I decided to make use of the ‘Poet Set’ on the Magnetic Poetry website;
- This piece is entirely fictional;
- I’ve never been divorced – this is merely a product of my imagination rendering a divorced man that is still madly in love with his wife;
- I once again opted for a tanka, rather than a haiku;
- The extra two lines (14 syllables) provide a greater challenge, as well as a larger canvas;
- I searched for and found the featured image only after I had written the entire tanka.
FYI:
Festival of Shavuot (Pentecost)
The Jewish festival of Shavuot began at sunset on Sunday and ends at sunset on Monday. In terms of religious restrictions, this festival is similar to Shabbat (the Sabbath). Therefore, I have scheduled some blog posts (including this one) to go up in the meantime – I hope you enjoy them!
The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱 
This is a very interesting poem. As someone who also has not been divorced I can see the emotion you have intended to imbue the words with. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks, Hamish 😀 I’m glad this resonated with you!
❤
David
Sad but too often true from both sides. (K)
I hope to never actually find out.
I hope you don’t either.
I’m into haiku and I haven’t tried tanka. Maybe I can write using tanka too.
Thank you for the idea🖤
Tanka poems have really grown on me! 🙂
(do you go by ‘Phile’?)
❤
David
I’ll be using it too Ben! 🙂
Awesome!
BTW, please feel free to use my first name, which is ‘David’ 🙂
All best,
David
Oh! Sure thing David.. have a nice day ahead! ☺️
The prisoner of porcelain kisses
Devours caramel woman
When universe lingering
Brilliant picturing
sky born
breezes melt
marble. (TPS)
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😊
Gorgeous!
🥰 TPS 🥰
Thank youi! you got me to play. Fun
what did you come up with, Susan? ❤
-David
Beautiful as ever, mate. Just the theme of it and the fantastic pairing of words–i know this is restricted by the magnets and all, but this is flowing so smoothly, it would be a pleasure to see it continue. You are really talented at this.
I had no idea what this poem would be about until I started pulling the magnets together, George.
Thank you, friend ❤
-David
I think the line “delicious caramel voice” is a great juxtaposition to the brokenness of the rest of the poem – caramel stretches and oozes but never breaks…
💓 Muri 💓
I like the way you bring all five sense to experience this poem. Great one!
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Laugh…laugh…laugh… ❤
sometimes one must, Filipa.😑
Yes David!
Literally wordplay 🙂
💗 Nguyễn 💗