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Early near the dawn

Early, near the dawn, an almost forgotten sound of birds chirping loud determined to wake us all to the slow death of winter.

Tanka is a form of Japanese poetry which translates as "short song." It is 31 syllables and often broken up into five lines of 5/7/5/7/7 syllables.

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