Golden Hour Companions: A Chōka

Written for Tanka Tuesday were our host,
Robbie, asks us to write an alliterative poem.

desert dragons doze,
drenched in dazzling droughty dust,
sun spills spiky gold,
scattering scaly shadows,
twin thorned throats thrum warm,
throned together on the wood,
beards blaze, bronze and bright,
basking, breathless, burning bold,
comrades crowned in copper calm

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Nancy’s Notes: The chōka (long poem) was the storytelling form of Japanese poetry from the 1^st to the 13^th century. It is unrhymed and written in alternating five and seven-syllable lines that end with an extra seven-syllable line. The nine-line chōka is 5-7-5-7-5-7-5-7-7.

This is  “Just In Time to See the Sun” by Santana

#TankaTuesday Poetry Challenge No. 80, Alliteration 9/01/26

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