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My mind runs circles, or: Fingers tap

A Tanka-Puente poem

my mind runs circles
a mouse on its spinning wheel
of anxiety
I chase ideas around
till even restlessness tires

~ No feeling is final ~

my fingers tap out
five, then seven, then five more
breath enters the lines
by the time this poem ends
I'll have ended something too

Tanka Tuesday: Tanka-Puente

For this week’s Tanka Tuesday prompt, Colleen encourages us to compose Puente poems with tankas as the first and third verses of our Puente poems.

Puente?

The Puente form has three stanzas with the first and third having an equal number of lines and the middle stanza having only one line which acts as a bridge (Puente) between the first and third stanza. The first and third stanzas convey a related but different element or feeling, as though they were two adjacent territories. The number of lines in the first and third stanza is the writer’s choice as is the choice of whether to write it in free verse or rhyme.

The center line is delineated by a tilde (~) and has ‘double duty’. It functions as the ending for the last line of the first stanza AND as the beginning for the first line of the third stanza. It shares ownership with these two lines and consequently bridges the first and third stanzas.

Let’s write poetry together!

When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option. You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.

–Ben Harper (b. 1969)

Would you like to create poetry with me and have a completed poem of yours featured here at the Skeptic’s Kaddish? I am very excited to have launched the ‘Poetry Partners’ initiative and am looking forward to meeting and creating with you… Check it out!