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

Somonka

Poetry

Romance

You come to me, love,

like a homing pigeon lands

at the precise place

she takes flight to find, that makes

my heart have sky, my sky—wings.

I come to you, love,

like you are my horizon,

filled with grace and light,

that my sight depends on, that

my love needs for a future.

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L Butchart

“There are horses made of shadows, winged with the breadth of nightmares, that poets fly over the chasm of the void… Sometimes… I ride one. [then] Whoosh, like a torrent of night wind, I land, rustling what is there, looking for the light.”