nacreous shimmer
white dewdrop upon black ink,
evening's finest silks

the pearl of the heavens glides
through nights as quiet as dreams.

#tanka #waka #mpy #poetry #englishlanguagetanka #tankaform

Near the Jack-in-the-Box

cold morning
the homeless woman
spreads her legs wide
a hot stream of pee
I’m just one more onlooker

#tanka repost from 2018 #TankaThursday homeless #TankaPoem #poetry

note: In #tanka ~ topics / images have no limit #TankaForm (quote by M. Kei - “everything is tanka”)

Screen shots of Michael McClintock’s article called ‘About Taika’ from the teachers guide at Tanka Society of America.

My input: One main point is haiku “rules” limit use of many poetic tools (like metaphor and personification) but those tools are options in Tanka. #Taika #TankaForm 2/2

Tanka Society of America - Tanka Teachers Guide The Tanka Teachers Guide, published in 2007 by Modern English Tanka Press in cooperation with the Tanka Society of America, contains primary materials and resources about tanka poetry that educators a...

What is Tanka? I host a weekly poetry prompt called #TankaThursday.

At the link is a tanka teacher’s guide.

I’ll attach 4 screen shots from an article by Michael McClintock. He discusses Taika, a version of Tanka that has elements of haiku. #TankaForm

www.tankasocietyofamerica.org/tanka-teache...

The final poem above has other features many thrive for in tanka. For now I’ll end at 5/x posts vs. discuss those features. Please let me know if you found this thread helpful. As mentioned, I’ll try to share more about the Tanka form periodically as well as the weekly prompt. #TankaForm in search.