Michael Edwards

LOVE HEALS

 

 

LOVE HEALS

 

Hasty words can hurt

Carelessly spoken they pierce

Wounds will often bleed

Internal lesions cause pain

Expressions of love heal hearts

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tanka is a classic form of Japanese poetry

related to the haiku with five unrhymed

lines of five, seven, five, seven, and seven

syllables. (5, 7, 5, 7, 7) Probably best when

comprising of five short independent, yet

interrelated, statements).