strumming on the roof
refrains not played during drought
am I humming
in the identical key
farmers will be singing?
Straggling into Winter, 2007
Kathy Kituai
Commentary: In this tanka Kathy Kituai gives us a feast of sound – hum, sing, key, refrain. And the considered use of 4 ing-words gives a lyrical and musical quality to the poem that makes it sound pleasant, very much like the ping of rain on a galvanized roof.
-- excerpted from "To the Lighthouse: Sensing Tanka: Perceiving Life Beyond the Ordinary" by David Terelinck
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