A short verse in which thanks are given for the people who could not fit everything they wanted to say into as little as seventeen syllables, so they invented a longer verse form. This way there was always another option for squeezing all of their profound genius in if they were just too wordy.
the haiku challenge
is fit all your syllables
wish it could be long
er sometimes but a tanka
does provide some extra space
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Bigger bolder better; Who needs to stick to a poetry form by the letter?
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Not me,
I’m a trend setter
and when it comes to verse
I’m an oddity abettor
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You tread a fine line, sir.
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Well that’s a good substitute for not writing many I suppose.
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Those who read my tanka
Think I’m a completely poor poet
But my verse
Is worse
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Yep, agreed, it definitely looks to be.
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Thank you. Um…
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I do like the extra leg room that you get with a tanka but it’s not as nippy around town as a haiku
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Great for getting a load of rubbish in for nipping down to the tip though.
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‘ fine line’ as in a fine line is what I meant. Maybe I should’ve underlined it?!
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That’s what my teachers used to do with my homework, usually accompanied with a constructive comment or two!
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