Katauta is an unrhymed Japanese form consisting 0f 17 or 19 syllables in a 3 lined poem 5/7/7 or 5/7/5
These were usually lovers poems
Katautas were considered half poems

A pair of Katautas with syllable count 5/7/7
Is called a sedoka

Standing in your glow
In the aura of your smile
Makes me feel love in your light

Or

Embracing your heart
With each pound against my soul
Fills me with your love

Sedoka:
Your rose petal lips
Were so soft and full of love
Kissing me under the stars

Under the half moon
We stood together and stared
In the twilight of our eyes

I do think, darling
If you fixed me deviled eggs
Such work would show you loved me.

Your eyes blue as oceans
Your lips the most beautiful
Your pale complexion

Creation’s in the distance...

Dreams
Vast fingers
Light

The lovely numb
In twilights’
Silent snow
Storms

Lust
Plays slow
The honest shadow
Shine on
Unfearful
While waiting
Smoke
Waves
From our house
From nature
Blue rides of lonely
Bones
Break in shade
Skin and flowers
On stones & doors
Of malleable deeps
The Wild unquiet
Worry
Running
In games
Shaping seeds, roads
To desert dust
Bowlderizing
Reality’s
***** milk bare
Touching
Midnight mischief
Futures’
Flames
Picture frames
Fallen ugly
In the early
Wee corners
Of crowded rooms
Drinking cups of ink
Gaggles of
Greys fathers
Founding
Landing
Pretends bleeding
Heart

The perch of birds
Hardly choose
The lovelorn
Small talk
With Lotus asleep
Searching everyday
For the way
To clarity
The unseen
Pitch/ walls whispers
In tongues
Katauta s afloat
In the brilliance
Without their bliss
Hiss
Loss of sense
Across the pond / commons
Nest
Dragons conversing
With bone and unknown

Barely a caress
Those voices
Of rest
Eyeless watching
With distant ache
Unlearned well
Brown and blackouts
In cold teeth
Of wealth and hell
Where wish
Teaches classes
How to be foolhardy
Rocks off
To cosmic heights
Iron bare
Lessons of stained
Wood
Fires
Painted stares
In heels
Of steel / existence
Blame
The richer
Glitter
Not spark or secret
Precious hearths
A scent of silver
Bells
The thunderous
Imagination
Of living
Proof

World dies without
Light
Love
Life / no truth
No wonder..