TANKA | NEW YEAR | POETRY | PROMPT RESPONSE

Calming Words, A Calming Concept Is What You Need At The Start of The Year

Here’s one: Wakamizu — a beautiful aesthetic concept in a tanka on the reflection of a star bouncing in the water in my glass

Image by Gundula Vogel from Pixabay Retouched on Canva by Author

pouring a glass of water
reflects me a star
buoyant as a New Year's Day
blessed and holy water
I bow and drink it up

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Akemashite omedetto gozaimasu: Happy New Year in Japanese *bowing*

Hello, dear friends. Do you like learning new words? I have one — it’s Japanese.

Wakamizu is the first water drawn from a well on New Year’s Day. And I present the aesthetic concept to you in a tanka, a form that fascinates me.

Its calming simplicity, crafted in everyday words and presented in five lines, has been my trend in the last months of last year. Now that the curtains are up in 2023, I find it appropriate to write about the bright reflection of a star that bounced into my water on New Year’s Day.