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What are the examples of tanaga?

Here are some examples of a Tanaga, a traditional poetic verse form from the Philippines composed of quatrains, usually seven syllables per line:

(A)

**The mango falls,

Yellow on green grass**,

**My love leaves me,

In my tears I drown**

(B)

**I see you walk

Down that winding path**,

**My whole being

Beats wildly inside**,

(C)

**With love unrequited,

My heart bleeds like wild bird's wound**,

**A silent agony in the deepest of forest trees.

(D)

In this night,

My heart soars high flying,

Just thinking,

Of your tender smile.

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