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Somonka - a Love Letter in Poetry Form
If you are familiar with the tanka poetry form, you will understand the somonka form. As a reminder, the tanka is a Japanese love poem. A love note. The somonka is putting two tankas together as “a declaration of love” and “a response” (Turco 263).
MUST HAVES
--Two tankas minimum.
--2 authors (or two voices—see “of note” section).
--Follow the tanka form (5-7-5-7-7 syllables – 5 lines for each stanza).
--Love message.
COULD HAVES or WHAT IS THE POET’S CHOICE IN ALL THIS?
--Any type of love, although it is traditionally a love between a man and woman (see “of note” section).
--You could stick to the traditional one pair of tankas, or expand it to several pairs.
OF NOTE:
As mentioned above, this form is traditionally a love between a man and a woman; however I can see how this form could be used to explore all kinds of love relationships. This could be between a man and woman (lovers, friends, father/daughter, mother/son, and so on), two men (lovers, brothers, father/son, friends, etc.), two women (lovers, sisters, mother/daughter, friends, and so on), a person and pet, a person and an inanimate object, a person and place, a person and an emotion—the possibilities are endless!
SOURCE NOTES:
Turco, Lewis. The Book of Forms. 3rd. Lebanon, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 2000.
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By: Joy 
Comment: Great NL, Red. It gave me the idea of a cookbook with epulaeryu poetry, that is a poem with each recipe, but I am not a chef.
Any chefs among us? It would be an interesting book.
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