SUMMER BEAT (Tanka)

Heat touches my face

I’m trying to find a shade

Here comes the summer

No one could really escape

The most awaited season.

                                            -TANKA-

Tanka (from the Japanese for “short poem”) are mood pieces, usually about love, the shortness of life, the seasons, or sadness. Composed of 5-7-5-7-7 syllables.

Source of definition:

ENGLISH 133 POETRY Compilation