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Whole World Out of Control Ronka

Whole World Out of Control Ronka

I wake up with the morning dawning sun.
Turn on my TV watch the news,
drinking a hot snarling cup of coffee.
thinking dark gloomy thoughts as the snow falls.
Bombs, war, inflation, end-of-the-world.

The Ronka is another spinoff from the Japanese Haiku and Tanka forms devised by Ken Ronkowitz. The structure consists of five unrhymed lines with seven words per line. The theme should "focus on observations of the day as seen in the outside world and the inside worlds of dwellings and the mind," as described and demonstrated in the following links:

https://writingtheday.wordpress.com/2015/02/02/trying-the-ronka-form/