100 Forms of Poetry: #36 Gogyohka

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Lasting Love

Above all else

There exists a plane

Where nothing

But love

Will prevail

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Gogyohka was a form developed by Enta Kusakabe in Japan and translates literally to “five-line poem.” An off-shoot of the tanka form, the gogyohka has very simple rules: The poem is comprised of five lines with one phrase per line. 

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