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gun tanka


Just too many guns


Just too many guns
So many people dying
Many gun ghosts now
Politicians do nothing
Offering useless prayers




Tanka is an ancient Japanese form with five unrhymed lines structured in 5, 7, 5, 7, 7 syllables, as described and demonstrated in the following links:

https://writingcooperative.com/how-to-write-tanka-7929c07826ef

https://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/topic/1141-tanka/

https://tankajournal.com/what-is-tanka/
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