Mountain Ash Feathered canopy Tones of October sunset Intricate scarlet Leaves against a cloudless sky Alight with yellow berries Free image found on theguardian.com
Tag: Tanka
Every autumn birds migrate…
so here is a tanka about the migration of the little tern. Little Terns on a Norfolk Beach Chattering sea birds Their black tipped bills of yellow Black heads on grey cloud Of skyward ascending wings Ready for their yearly flight Migration to Africa Image found on the RSPB website
A found tanka inspired by a letter from Franz Kafka to Oskar Pollak
Kafka on Books Read books that wound you Affect you like disaster Grieve for characters Banished to far-flung forests A book must be the axe for The frozen sea inside us Free image found on www.theguardian.com
Inspiration from the garden – a tanka to start the day
Honeysuckle Dew Vermillion bines Intertwine their tender limbs Rigid ribbons climb Spread innocent oval leaves Adorned with diamonds of dew
Another tanka
After looking at newspaper headlines and television news coverage of the terrible things that are happening to Syrian refugees, I wrote a ‘found’ tanka. There is no image to illustrate it. If you need one, please look on the Internet – there are so many. Refugee Tanka Washed up on a beach The heartbreaking human […]
It’s time to try a tanka
After reading Somali Chakrabarti’s tanka this morning, I thought I would have a go. I haven’t written one for a long while. Thank you, Somali, for reminding me of the tanka. The tanka poem is similar to the haiku, but with more syllables and lines: 31 syllables in 5 lines, with 5 syllables in the first […]
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