Hug me tight – a Katauta poem

Hug in rain

Embraced bare in rain

Head on his chest, drops trickled

Heard my name beat in, ā¤§ā¤• ā¤§ā¤•

The Katauta is an unrhymed japanese form consisting of 17 or 19 syllables. The poem is a three-lined poem the following syllable counts: 5/7/5 or 5/7/7.

The Katauta form was used for poems addressed to a lover. A single katauta is considered incomplete or a half-poem, however, a pair of katautas using the syllable count of 5,7,7 is called a sedoka.

 

 

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