Samonka is a poem that combines two tankas written as love letters to each other. It’s sort of like a call and response I suppose. Perhaps an hour isn’t enough time to really get into these. I think it would be especially interesting if friends or lovers wrote a Samonka together…
Here’s what I got all by my lonesome:
Would you still love me
If I couldn’t remember
who you are to me
and sat talking about things
that have no significance?
I will love you, Dear…
no matter the circumstance.
I know who you are
when all else is uncertain.
I know that you have loved me.
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Cheers.