Business Trip Voodoo Tanka Poem

Sheri Fresonke Harper
surgical steel pin
precisely skewers paper
portrait of the named
unknown by those called here inside
crowded room full of alone

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Tanka's are short songs. The form is made up of lines of 5, 7, 5, 7, 7 syllables.

Published by Sheri Fresonke Harper

Sheri works as a freelance writer, novelist and poet. She worked in the aviation industry at the Port of Seattle and Boeing Company for 20 years as a systems analyst/architect where she edited and wrote over...  View profile

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  • Trisha Hodges4/17/2011

    Very cute tanka!

  • NANCY CZERWINSKI1/28/2011

    Thanks for sharing! 5*

  • Bethany R. Marsh1/25/2011

    Thanks. : )

  • Charlotte Kuchinsky1/24/2011

    Interesting.

  • Sondra C1/23/2011

    something new learned all the time, Interesting

  • Stephanie Jeannot1/23/2011

    Nice poem.

  • Victoria Cunningham1/22/2011

    Interesting poem!

  • LarrWayne Po1/22/2011

    Room full of alone is an interesting phrase.

  • Carol Roach1/22/2011

    great poem

  • Diane Z. Ciatto1/22/2011

    Sweet tanka, Sheri!!!

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