A wave of emotions – My first Tanka poem! 🌊

Flowing yet stagnant

Run away like a river

Still, all is not lost

Through the many twists and turns

On this worn down, weary path.

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Hello, hi and hey! I don’t know what to choose for today so you’re getting them all 😅. Today I didn’t want to share a happy go lucky kind of post but at the same time I didn’t want to throw loads of words onto a page. Poetry felt like the right thing to do so as to vent but not go overboard at a time when I’d rather not if you know what I mean? Sometimes it’s nice to be compact and keep things together when that can be a choice so I’m glad right now it feels like it can be.

I’m pretty sure I’ve never written a Tanka poem before so this is my first one! 🎉 (They are made up of 5 lines wherein the first has 5 syllables, the second features 7 syllables and on from that it goes 5, 7, 7 – I’m not good at explaining things but you probably know what it is anyway!). More often than not the number of lines you’re allowed to write in a haiku (Three in total that go 5 syllables, 7 and then 5 again) just doesn’t cut it so with a Tanka being like an extended version of that, this post was inevitable! 😅 I’m a little bit annoyed that the first two lines of the verse will not by force be as distant from eachother as the rest but never mind! 😐

When you’re fearful over health you can feel stuck and like you’re being pulled forward through that experience oftentimes falling beneath the surface all at once. I’m a sea of emotions. I can be crying, feeling lost and then I’ll feel hope and as though meaning has been found before it flips back over. I don’t know if I’ve captured how that can feel but perhaps those in similar situations can find their own reasoning to put towards this Tanka? I hope so.

The post Twists & Turns that I wrote 4 years ago came to mind when I was thinking about how to put an end to the poem. There’s this fight to not wallow that made me not want to end things on a low but then I’d be lying and covering up to make it look all neat and pretty. That old post is about the future so it will always end up being new, there’s a hint of uncertainty but positive action carries it forward. It’s like a light to travel towards. I see what I’d have thought was poor judgement as I look back at those words over how things would turn out but it’s actually still a possibility. I know it is ✨ (I’ll still say can’t but I’ll never say never because I’m not a fortune teller 🔮🤣). This poem connects with that one in the most surprising of ways and I didn’t expect it to at all until it blipped into my head. I refuse to give up, even on days when it doesn’t feel like much of a choice and it’s nice to have my past thought process come back to solidify that.

Sooo have you ever written a Tanka poem before? What are your thoughts on this one? 🤔 Let me know in the comments below and thank you for reading my post! It never fails to amaze me how magical the blogging experience can be and it’s crazy to think about how far away some of you are, yet we meet in this space 🌌. This blog brings on all the good emotions and I’d happily get lost in it 😂. Anyway, I’ll see you again soon! Take care, stay safe and buh-bye 🌊💙xx.

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