Welcome to my April 2025 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

I’ve revealed my theme (A poem a day…with pictures), and of course, I am unashamedly blogging my theme letters on the fly.  So, here goes nothing!

So, without further ado, G is for …Gogyohka, “a form developed by Enta Kusakabe in Japan and translates literally to “five-line poem.” An off-shoot of the tanka form, the gogyohka has very simple rules: The poem is comprised of five lines with one phrase per line. That’s it.” (https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/gogyohka-poetic-form)

Waiting

Under dawn skies, a poet sits,
squat and silent,
on a grass-covered hillside.
Damp sinking into clothes and skin,
she shivers, her eyes squinting through the mist.

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Thanks for visiting my 2025 A to Z Challenge – Letter G.