The Sea Within

New Prompt:
Write, using 'The Tanka' as your form about a stormy sea. Maximum 5 stanzas.
Bianca explains,
"Tanka is Japan's oldest poetry form.
Traditionally a tanka has five lines with 5-7-5-7-7 syllables.
Tanka presents one image or mood in the first two lines, shifting to a related idea in the next three, commonly about sadness, love, the shortness of life, or the seasons. Unlike the Japanese Haiku, Tanka may use poetical devices such as metaphor and personification."


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The Sea Within

Rain whips wickedly
like wet rags slapped upon flesh.
Along the shore she
awaits her only true love,
blindly searching his return.

As waves crash against
cold, bare legs, pulling her feet
within hungry sand,
she struggles to tame her locks,
praying for quick redemption.

Raging thunder roars
as white bolts pierce the darkness.
She quietly weeps,
tears mixed with unforgiving
sleet, pounding revengefulness.

Alas! The storm breaks
within her beaten spirit,
awakening life.
Warmth blankets her sorry soul
as she welcomes His return.

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