Kyoka Fun – The Raven – July 12, 2014

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Whist chatting with a friend yesterday, about typos (crows became cross) I wrote a kyoka, of which this is the modified edited version:

The Raven

mossy crosses stood
upon a midnight weary …
roosting in the yard
the raven felt so dreary
cawing “never more”  he left.

One of the aspects of a kyoka, which is a humorous poem, is to make a parody or satire of a classic poem … of course this is only a reference, not quite a parody of Edgar Allen Poe’s famous Raven.

 

8 thoughts on “Kyoka Fun – The Raven – July 12, 2014”

        • Exactly why that form of kyoka had difficulty becoming a thing of the masses. Once the Shogun prohibited the samurai to write kyoka, kyoka became a popular form among the merchant class but could get pretty rough from what I’ve read. Anyway a lot of what Shiki was calling waka when he made his tanka reform was often in fact kyoka … again this comes from the reading I’ve ben doing on the subject, so can’t realy be sure of that.

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