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larryhammerFor Poetry Monday, chronologically a little late but still appropriate for this subtropical climate:
November Night, Adelaide Crapsey
Listen …
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp’d, break from the trees
And fall.
Crapsey (1878-1914) was a teacher and prosodist as well as poet, and this was first published in her (posthumous) first collection, Verses. The form is a cinquain, a fixed syllabic stanza based on Japanese tanka that she developed in her last year of life, before dying of tuberculosis.
---L.
Subject quote from Windy,” The Association.
November Night, Adelaide Crapsey
Listen …
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp’d, break from the trees
And fall.
Crapsey (1878-1914) was a teacher and prosodist as well as poet, and this was first published in her (posthumous) first collection, Verses. The form is a cinquain, a fixed syllabic stanza based on Japanese tanka that she developed in her last year of life, before dying of tuberculosis.
---L.
Subject quote from Windy,” The Association.
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Date: 8 December 2025 08:57 pm (UTC)This is wonderful!
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Date: 9 December 2025 12:42 am (UTC)I’ve been known to tanka myself.