Snow's Writing for 2019, 2020, & Beyond

The Tanaga: Shelter-in-place Blues

It's a beautiful bright day,
but I can't go out to play,
in the house I have to stay:
Please, pandemic go away!

Poet's Note: ▶︎

Line Count: 4
Form: The Tanaga  .

The elements of the Tanaga are:
1. a tetrastich, a poem in 4 lines. However, modern poets have modified it to longer works in a stanzaic pattern of any number of quatrains.
2. syllabic, 7-7-7-7 syllables per line.
3. rhymed, originally monorhymed aaaa. Modern Tanagas also use aaaa bbbb etc., or aabb ccdd etc or abba cddc etc or any combination rhyme can be used.
4. asks a question seeking an answer
5. composed with the liberal use of metaphor
6. untitled. But in this poetic world we kind of have to title our poems for identity's sake.

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