Stuck in a Haiku?
Feel that you’ve nowhere to go?
Why not try Tanka?
Two extra lines to play with
and thirty-one syllables
©Jemverse
Photo – Haiku from ‘Kito’ (1740 – 1788) – Jempics
Inspired by a blog posting on 30 July from ‘The Reluctant Poet‘
Both ‘haiku’ and ‘tanka’ are Japanese poetry forms. Haiku comprises three lines with a syllabic sequence of 5,7,5; Tanka comprises five lines with a syllabic sequence of 5,7,5,7,7
