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Sedoka Poems | Sedoka Examples

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A sedoka is a form of Japanese poem that is unrhymed and consists of two three-line katauta which follow a 5/7/7 syllables count, but there is more to a sedoka. What is sedoka in poetry (complete definition)?

Premium Member Play of shadows
Looking for sweetness, love’s fragrance omnipresent, eludes my deluded heart. Ego’s the fault line, choosing thinking, not feeling, separating us from source....Read the rest...
Categories: love, spiritual,
Form: Sedoka



Baptism and reflection
“An eternal man Will bathe you in flames and light To cleanse your own flesh of sin” “Do not reflect flesh Seek to mix water and flames To reflect eternal light” ...Read the rest...
Categories: baptism, fire, light, mirror,
Form: Sedoka
Premium Member Merging
Caged in feeble form, rainbow spectrum is too small, to express my love for you. Let our souls commune, osmotically mingling, lighting the lamp of pure bliss....Read the rest...
Categories: joy, love, spiritual,
Form: Sedoka
Premium Member The Luckiest People in the World
People are healers Of our sad souls when lonely And stand by when we are glad Life without people A vast empty desert is Be thou a friend to the end 4/29/2024 ...Read the rest...
Categories: friend, inspiration,
Form: Sedoka
Premium Member undying effervescence
To become the flame, we must agree to dissolve, in the void of nothingness. Love in love with love, for the sake of love alone, revels in its own fragrance....Read the rest...
Categories: love, spiritual,
Form: Sedoka



Premium Member we willingly burn
Is it not foolish to make detachment a goal, when both our hearts beat as one? True it is, soul mate, since love alone is real, our entwinement pleases God....Read the rest...
Categories: love,
Form: Sedoka
Premium Member Agape love
Knowing we are souls, where lies foundation of love, as vibrations in the void? Pristine awareness, one with oneness and God’s breath, pulsates as love, light and bliss....Read the rest...
Categories: love, spiritual,
Form: Sedoka
Premium Member Hold me close
Distanced, polarised, both our hearts yet beat as one, tango dancing in the void. This separation is illusionary dear; distance makes hearts grow fonder....Read the rest...
Categories: love, spiritual,
Form: Sedoka
Premium Member Butterfly effect
Your aura glistens, with an ethereal light oozing love, which I imbibe. Bees feed off flowers who express deep gratitude, as love seeds so pollinate....Read the rest...
Categories: inspirational, love,
Form: Sedoka
Premium Member Hold my hand
My life has gone by in hesitancy and doubt but I’m joyful when you’re near. Who are we both dear but reflections of God’s light, tango dancing in the dark?...Read the rest...
Categories: love, spiritual,
Form: Sedoka
Premium Member Snack Too Yummy Mommy
Bus driver frantic, searching for two missing kids, who did not get off the bus ! Found them on the floor, between the last seats eating, driver, parents now happy !...Read the rest...
Categories: kid, lost,
Form: Sedoka
Premium Member Musings on love
Objects of desire quenches not thirst of my soul, that seeks only your embrace. That that comes and goes is unreal, oh hermit ~ agape love alone’s real....Read the rest...
Categories: desire, introspection, love,
Form: Sedoka
Premium Member While you sleep
Why so shy, my love? Leap forward in close embrace, that hearts entwined feel complete! We always are one dear heart, for did you not sense, my kiss in your dreams each night?...Read the rest...
Categories: dream, kiss, love,
Form: Sedoka
Premium Member One light
I seek an echo of pure love, not lust, that seeks, the entwinement of our hearts. All that is, is God, whose sublime light’s reflected, in your heart mirrored in mine....Read the rest...
Categories: love, wisdom,
Form: Sedoka
Premium Member Hush the blush
To state the truth stark, heart’s insentient to love, so my soul lives in the dark. No matter my love, relinquishing thought flow crutch, feel God’s grace within by touch....Read the rest...
Categories: blessing, dark, god, love,
Form: Sedoka

Specific Types of Sedoka Poems

Definition | What is Sedoka in Poetry?

Poems Related to Sedoka

choka, japanes, katauta, senryu, sestina, tanka, triolet, verse


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