A Thousand Songs
Imayo Poem
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1 min readOct 13, 2021
Brewing storm in a raindrop, the sky takes a sip
While the greys cover the blues- with dancing white clouds
As a thousand songs run by, I remember none
Words are a distant rumble, you are everywhere
Poet Lubna Yusuf
The Imayo is a four-line Japanese poem that has twelve syllables in each line. If a twelve-syllable line sounds unique for a Japanese poetic form, don’t fret. There is a planned caesura (or pause) between the first seven syllables and the final five.
Special mention and thanks to the inspiring introduction to new poetic forms by Somsubhra Banerjee in this article:
You may like to read other works of the writer:
A Teaspoon of Poems, a bestseller in Asian Literature on Amazon.
