Autumn’s Cycle
Ribbons of Autumn
Circling the sky in dance
Waltz its golden leaves
Moving from their
branch of birth
Shallow graves below
the sun
- Rhoda Galgiani
Tanka Poetry Form is a classic form of Japanese poetry related to the haiku with five
unrhymed lines of five, seven, five, seven and seven syllables - 5, 7, 5, 7, 7...rg