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Tanka (rules in my author notes)
2024 Gypsy's Tanka
: Wind and Rudder by Gypsy Blue Rose

 

wind and rudder

steer my sailboat across the sea

   chasing the North Star—

with a net full of wanderlust

and a heart filled with yearning

 
 
 
 

Author Notes
Contemporary Tanka is a Japanese unrhymed poem with 12 to 31 syllables arranged in five lines. The first poets who wrote tanka imitated the Japanese models of a 5-7-5-7-7 syllabic structure in five lines. This resulted in poems that were too long in comparison to Japanese tanka. The first tanka were padded or chopped to meet the fixed number of syllables. Additionally, the third line must transition from the descriptive and image-focused beginning lines into a reflective metaphor, simile, or personification for the closing lines. The subject matter varies, but most tanka are emotionally stirring or profound, and many are about love. click here if you want to read modern tanka examples === click here to read Tanka Society of America === click here if you want to read modern tanka rules

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