Le Voyage Magnifique

ESCAPE

City skyscrapers
obscure majestic sunrise
with all its glory,
and traffic shreds sanity.
I wish we could escape to
open spaces where
majestic mountain skyline
glorifies each day.

Notes on the Oriental Octet form of poetry ▼

The Oriental Octet merges the five-line Tanka with the three line Haiku to make a single eight-line poem, as described and demonstrated in the following links:

https://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/topic/2008-form-unique-to-the-study-and-writing...

hhttps://allpoetry.com/contest/2809627--8-Poets-Only-Write-An-Oriental-Octetttps:... .