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THE LOST CONTINENT

Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)

Tanka
Forget yesterdays
Live entirely for today,
Plan for tomorrow!
Stop all your crying
Get on with being alive.

Live life to the full
The past is long forgotten,
A lost continent.
Forget all of your hatred
Become one with us.

Exist for today
Forget the lost continent,
Just live day to day.
Don't linger in yester-times,
Be Australian!

THE END
© Copyright 2023, Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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Written on October 18, 2023

Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on October 17, 2023

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Scheme XAXXX XBCXX ACAXB XXX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 409
Words 81
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5, 3
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