Cold powdery dust
Covers the earth in pure chill
Wintry northern wind
And this icy sea of white
Declares that its time is nigh
The Japanese tanka is a thirty-one-syllable poem, traditionally written in a single unbroken line. A form of waka, Japanese song or verse, tanka translates as "short song," and is better known in its five-line, 5/7/5/7/7 syllable count form.
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