the young crabapple
is still two dimensional
cut back the leader
force branches to radiate
swap the obvious for growth
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NaPoWriMo‘s prompt today was to write a “tanka,” a traditional Japanese form of poetry. In English, a tanka typically has five lines with a syllable pattern of 5-7-5-7-7, though this is more a guideline than a requirement due to the differences in English and Japanese units of language. This is the first tanka I’ve written, so I did a little reading online to get a better feel for them. I found this article very helpful in terms of writing one, though I’m not sure I’ve quite captured the form yet.
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Here’s the literal crabapple, though of course there’s a figurative one as well.
Oh, one of my favorite trees, pruned so perfectly here.
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Thanks, Susan!
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Ah, so we have a literary crabapple and a literal crabapple in the same post! Nicely done. Tanka very much, Karin. 🙂
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You’re a punny guy, Harry. Eyeroll. 🙂
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It’s a baby crabapple!
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Practically a toddler! 🙂
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