Tanka Collective

[bluerains]

Building upon Senryu...and Haiku...Modern Tanka 5-7-5-7-7 loose rules..apply here...

First we build a haiku/senryu...then you must follow with the 7 7 tanka...then you may post your haiku/senryu...there by you change the flow...making it yours for the moment.....

I offer the first senryu...up for modern tanka ending....let the flow begin...

quatrain created
untethered myth inside out
emissary speaks

your
7 7 first in line...delivers the poem..ouch...

 

[bluerains]

finished tanka...

quatrain created
untethered myth inside out
emissary speaks
time sequence's speeding up
mercurial man stumbles

 

[bluerains]

staying on topic..

agents of chaos
spinning like a roulette wheel
portals unbalanced

 

[My Erotic Trail]

quatrain created
untethered myth inside out
emissary speaks
time sequence's speeding up
mercurial man stumbles

perhaps a couple more examples would help me understand how to create such a style.

water falls
from a cliff up high
kissing the sky
showering the earth
in a rainbow of spray

 

[bluerains]

perhaps a couple more examples would help me understand how to create such a style.

water falls
from a cliff up high
kissing the sky
showering the earth
in a rainbow of spray

ahh..nice first try

water falls from cliff
kissing sky from upon high
earth is showering rainbows

now ..one must do the tanka...last 7 7
How to write a Tanka poem

The Tanka poem is very similar to haiku but Tanka poems have more syllables and it uses simile, metaphor and personification.

There are five lines in a Tanka poem.

Line one - 5 syllables Beautiful mountains
Line two - 7 syllables Rivers with cold, cold water.
Line three - 5 syllable White cold snow on rocks
Line four - 7 syllables Trees over the place with frost
Line five - 7 syllables White sparkly snow everywhere.
Tanks poems are written about nature, seasons, love, sadness and other strong emotions. This form of poetry dates back almost 1200 years ago.
does this help....

 

[My Erotic Trail]

ahh..nice first try

water falls from cliff
kissing sky from upon high
earth is showering rainbows

now ..one must do the tanka...last 7 7
How to write a Tanka poem

The Tanka poem is very similar to haiku but Tanka poems have more syllables and it uses simile, metaphor and personification.

There are five lines in a Tanka poem.

Line one - 5 syllables Beautiful mountains
Line two - 7 syllables Rivers with cold, cold water.
Line three - 5 syllable White cold snow on rocks
Line four - 7 syllables Trees over the place with frost
Line five - 7 syllables White sparkly snow everywhere.
Tanks poems are written about nature, seasons, love, sadness and other strong emotions. This form of poetry dates back almost 1200 years ago.
does this help....

cool beans... thanks blue~

 

[bluerains]

finished your tanka...

water falls from cliff
kissing sky from upon high
earth is showering rainbows
from every sun covered kiss
licking the blue sea

 

[My Erotic Trail]

the wind blows
trees and leaves to sway
as the river flows
the world is not still
so I move onward

 

[bluerains]

the wind blows
trees and leaves to sway
as the river flows
the world is not still
so I move onward

close enough...now you own the topic....
of the senryu to tanka...

 

[My Erotic Trail]

zmp~ Tanka pebbles

from a foot step
a pebble is brought to life
until it lay still
and from that pebble's wake
other stones become moved