Just eleven lines
Tell a tale of hope in spring
Or autumn’s langour
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Count my syllables
Primes are the poem’s numbers
Make each letter work
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Make a joyful lifting verse
Make a blessing not a curse
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Explore the cosmos
Or the stars in loving eyes
Hataciku cares
Britni
Inspired by Dr Michael Heng, who invented the form.
A Hataciku poem consists of 65 syllables written in 3 stanzas as 11 lines of phrase arranged in the pattern sequence of 5–7–5–5–7–5–7–7–5–7–5 = 65 syllables.
Hataciku is a portmanteau word for tanka and sciku haikus [Haiku-Tanka-Sciku].
It has a title for focus.
It has a season.
It has multiple subjects.
And no punctuation
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