According to Wikipedia, Tanka (短歌, “short poem”?) is a genre of classical Japanese poetry and one of the major genres of Japanese literature. Below you can read the 27th of my 2017 poems.
The aim is to write as many of these poems as possible to build a comprehensive picture of life with a disability in 21st century Britain.
So concludes the draw
In the lottery of life
Devoid of fortune
Condemned to fight and struggle
Due to the cards I was dealt
