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Gogyohka Poem Suite

A chapter in the book 2024 Japanese Poetry

~ I Don't Want To Die ~

by Gypsy Blue Rose


word definitions and poem form in author notes
 

I don't want to die

without tasting your lips

and your salty golden skin

but you live
 
on a distant shore

 

I don't want to die

crying inconsolably

like a motherless child

in nobody's embrace

below the cloudy sky



I don't want to die

without blending

    our bodies and souls
 
riding on a gypsy's caravan
 
wandering on winding roads
 


I don't want to die

without feeling your love

like a tight tango dance

beneath the bewitching Venus

and the jealous Moon
 

 
 

 
 
 
 




Caravan = a group of travelers journeying together like a group of gypsies or pilgrims

Inconsolably = not able to be comforted

Gogyohka is a five-line free-style Japanese poetic form with no strict rules on syllable count but as brief as possible. Any theme. Lines are grammatically connected. Alliteration, personification, and metaphor are okay but never rhyme. Japanese poets have written gogyohka since the 1910s. However, they did not name the form until 1983 by poet Enta Kusakabe. === source = writers digest ===source=wikipedia

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Gypsy "Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason." - Novalis

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