Tanka Poem: Pure Snow

I love the snow

It looked so fluffy and white

Though cold to the touch

It can make me want to play

Like a pure, innocent child

The Japanese tanka is a thirty-one-syllable poem, traditionally written in a single unbroken line. A form of waka, Japanese song or verse, tanka translates as "short song," and is better known in its five-line, 5/7/5/7/7 syllable count form.

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