Six hours and a plane ⁣⁣⁣⁣
I enter a foreign land ⁣⁣⁣⁣
Eyes dance, faceless crowd⁣⁣⁣⁣
(until) ⁣⁣
She arrests me in her eyes⁣⁣⁣⁣
I walk in a homeward land

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First of all, I am so grateful for yesterday’s poem being selected by the NaPoWriMo website. You can read it by clicking here

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NaPoWriMo prompt day 2 – And now, here is our (optional) prompt for the day! The tanka is an ancient Japanese poetic form. In contemporary English versions, it often takes the shape of a five-line poem with a 5 / 7 / 5 / 7 / 7 syllable-count – kind of like a haiku that decided to keep going.