THE FIFTH ANTHOLOGY OF WORLD GOGYOSHI

I’m Aida G. Roque, a multi international awardees in English Literature and Poetry, a Filipino-American Author and Publisher of numerous children books and more than a thousand poetry collections published in Spillwords Magazine and Poetry Soup,USA. A recipient of Shakespeare Medal of Honor, Received the Honorary Doctorate Degree in Humanities from Prixton University, USA.

Gogyoshi is style of Japanese poem that consist of a title and five lines. Japanese Poet Tekkan Yosano published in 1910 the original form of Gogyoshi with specific syllable counts for each line but only few poets followed the Tekkan style. Some Japanese poets began writing modern Gogyoshi without syllabic restrictions but define with five lines. Since then, Gogyoshi is a free style Japanese poetic form with no syllabic restrictions, no specific line breaks or no rhyme scheme. However, the style differ from other five lines form, such as Tanka and Gogyohka. English Tanka is five- line poem without..