Challenge
Double Tanka Poetry Challenge
Using 10 lines and a syllable count of: 57577 & 57577, tell a story. Most creative/descriptive wins.
Freedom Song
She came to me then,
brown skin under warm heaven.
"Not much longer now,"
She whispered. Eyes a deeper
brown. "Soon, we will be free. Yes."
We ran in moonlight.
There are only stars to see
us. Limbs pushing north.
Once there, we will never sleep
with whips cracking in nightmares