Poetic Musings: Sunrise & Sunset Tanka by Bhawana Rathore

a poem comes 

and sits beside me 

while I wait 

for the sun, to set 

for the sun, to rise

NeverEnding Story, November 9, 2023

Bhawana Rathore

Commentary: Enhanced by the use of syntactic parallelism, Ls 3-5 invite the reader into the "proper frame of mind" (i.e. in touch with nature) to receive the divine inspiration that the Muse imparts in Ls 1&2.

Thematically and philosophically speaking, this mood tanka about the "being" of a poem reminds me of the following remark:

A poem should not mean

But be

Archibald MacLeish, "Ars poetica"

And it could be read as a sequel to the following tanka:

waking half way

through the day

half the sunshine

half the pain

-- still time for a poem

Little Purple Universes, 2011

Helen Buckingham