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Planting Flags on Foreign Shores

A Tanka

By Matthew J. FrommPublished 2 years ago 1 min read
Planting Flags on Foreign Shores
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Ink on contracts dries

Oh, we nameless faces rejoice!

A new spring now dawns

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The price of televisions

I no longer watch the trees

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A/N:

While I will make no claim of expertise, and for those unaware, a Tanka is a 31 syllable poem in which the seven syllable couplet at the end is a response to the preceding haiku/senryu.

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Matthew J. Fromm

Full-time nerd, history enthusiast, and proprietor of arcane knowledge.

Here there be dragons, knights, castles, and quests (plus the occasional dose of absurdity).

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