Somonka Between Animus, Soul and Universe
Not your typical love poem
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5 min readAug 14, 2021
Hello my friends in Queen’s Children — it has been too long since I submitted here. I have embarked on a simultaneous journey through our beloved Diana C.’s 50 prompts for deep self-reflection
and MDSHall’s (dodoitsu and American cinquain) and Somsubhra Banerjee’s various uncommon poetic forms
While pollinating these flowers across several publications, I’ve been meaning to land here, where I feel today’s prompt and response should blossom.
How can you begin to clearly hear which direction your soul is calling you in and find the courage to trust it?
Today I have chosen to adapt the somonka
The somonka is basically two tankas(5–7–5–7–7 syllable format) written as two love letters…
