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Yellow Dust Oriental Octet
Yellow Dust Oriental Octet


Korean springtime,
Flowers blooming everywhere.
Snowing cherry trees,
Walking with my wife.
Enjoying the springtime weather.
The air can be bad,
Some yellow dust in the air.
Hay fever attack.


The Oriental Octet appears to be a blending of the Japanese Tanka and Haiku devised by James R. Gray, who requests that nature be the theme. The structure consists of 8 lines with syllable counts of 5, 7, 5, 7, 7, 5, 7, 5, as described and demonstrated in the following link:

https://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/topic/2008-form-unique-to-the-study-and-writing...
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