Notes About The Poem

This is a Gogyohka style or form poem

5 lines like a tanka but no syllable limit

each line is a complete phrase

To Me

To Me
to me your love looks inward you only serve yourself from where I sit, no one else is included even I am left out why did we marry
Copyright © | Year Posted 2025

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Andresen Avatar
April 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
- Sounds like a bad marriage, Oliver...great written - hugs
Mckeithan Avatar
April 2, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Thanks Anne-Lise. It is fictional for me and my wife anyway.
Rodrigues Avatar
April 2, 2025 at 10:43 AM
So very sad. The love needs to be recaptured…the little things matter.
Mckeithan Avatar
April 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
They do matter but when one is focused on oneself it is hard. This is fictional by the way. Thanks Kim
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