POEM STARTER
Submitted by Maranda Quinn
Write a Somonka from the perspectives of two lovers. A Somonka is made of two Tankas, with the second responding to the first.
A tanka consists of five lines with a syllabic structure of 5-7-5-7-7
Galah
Our love eternal
For I would take no other.
You; the gale on which,
Lifted my wings heavenwards.
Not enough. Metal beast. Splat.
Red, not pink but red
On you, on the black graveyard
On many, fallen,
friends. I cannot survive this.
everything… splat. My own… splat.
** I was struggling with the prompt so I wrote it about Galahs, which are a bird that mates for life. The get so attached to their partner sometimes when they pass, it drives them to purposefully stand out in the middle of the road to die as well. **
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