[I have adhered to traditional tanka form...'The Japanese tanka is a thirty-one-syllable poem, traditionally written in a single unbroken line. A form of waka, Japanese song or verse, tanka translates as 'short song, ' and is better known in its five-line,5/7/5/7/7 syllable count form.]
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