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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)?
The Kite POTDI must fly a kite
and lift it ever so high
And load all my cares on it.
The wind suddenly
Veers direction and down comes
My kite bringing back my cares.
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Categories:
care,
Form: Sedoka
Why are we hereNaked awareness
seeks to clothe itself with love
and so descends in this realm.
Bliss effervescence
caused when pheromones mingle
etches its scent in the void....
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Categories:
joy, spiritual,
Form: Sedoka
Who am IOf all’s one, who’re we
and for that matter all forms,
held in the womb of vast space?
Screen of consciousness,
unchanging and eternal,
is all that is and we’re that!...
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Categories:
introspection, spiritual,
Form: Sedoka
Alton, Mosurrounded by trees
a trailer lies in decay
the front door tugged by the wind
a home left behind
littered with animal waste
shadows seep from doors ajar...
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Categories:
environment, gothic, loss, missing,
Form: Sedoka
About A BoyMy dream was real
A little boy stared at me
I do not know who he was
Perhaps he knows me
I do not know who he is
Its a mystery to me...
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Categories:
boy,
Form: Sedoka
InnocenceIf our heart be pure,
childlike, vibrant yet demure,
where then lies inhibition?
Spontaneity,
alive, aglow and aflame;
it has no need to rehearse....
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Categories:
child, innocence,
Form: Sedoka
Shimmers in the voidSpace seems motionless
but for those who know the truth,
it shimmers, yearning for love.
Hearts callously squashed,
rise from mists assuring us,
injuries are forgiven....
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Categories:
forgiveness, love,
Form: Sedoka
SatchitanandaWhat’s that fulfilment,
which extinguishes desires
and releases us from fear?
Once head melds with heart,
union of polarities,
results in bliss unending....
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Categories:
spiritual,
Form: Sedoka
Agape loveThe echo we seek,
presupposes rejection,
manifesting destiny.
Love in love with love,
for the sake of love alone,
disappears transformed as bliss....
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Categories:
destiny, joy, love, spiritual,
Form: Sedoka
Conditioned responsePausing aversion,
making void-centric our view,
pesky flies are forgiven.
The note discordant,
plays to a different rhythm,
unknown to throb of our heart....
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Categories:
introspection,
Form: Sedoka
Hidden in plain sightThe first thing we see,
before beholding objects,
is the boundless womb of space.
Do we dare to leap,
in this enigmatic void,
omnipresent yet detached?...
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Categories:
introspection, space, spiritual,
Form: Sedoka
Divine romanceIn midst of many,
we secretly woo silence,
hoping she will warm our heart.
Love’s bliss mist rises,
arms inviting close embrace;
touched thus, we become the flame....
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Categories:
love, spiritual,
Form: Sedoka
Void-centricWhat’s our love index,
if out of sight, out of mind,
is our orientation?
We do not obsess
on forms that are manifest,
knowing God’s omnipresence....
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Categories:
spiritual,
Form: Sedoka
The Empty Pea Pod: Rimbaud et Verlainepact fusion hath brewed
welds cauldron spewed spit fiery
sparse talents biformed renowned
oddity affair
ardent youth pose statuesque
fragile innards touch grotesque
bursts end aggression
severs espousal rapport
guilt aspires realist soars...
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Categories:
analogy, conflict, dark, fate,
Form: Sedoka
The Old Man and The SeaFaulkner's letter to
Hemingway discovered God
in time ~ ere souls wrote
formed their clays ~ victories and
defeats ~ fought they their reproof
now loves and pities
proud catch lost at sea old man
lands the best that seldom's me...
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Categories:
analogy,
Form: Sedoka
Specific Types of Sedoka Poems
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