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How to Enrich the Quality of Your Tanka
Tanka is not about counting syllables or lines, nor is it about following a specific image or theme. Quality makes a big difference to the outcome of your tanka. It is 'Quality' that makes a reader 'marvel' at what you've written. Here is a fast and sure way to discern if your tanka is 'quality-rich'.
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Tanka: Subjective or Objective?
It is common for haiku poets to claim that haiku are objective and tanka are subjective, but this is a mistake. Back in the medieval period in Japan, scholars and critics argued the difference between 'wet' (emotional, subjective) and 'dry' (objective) as the desired basis for tanka.
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The Ongoing Tanka Structure Conundrum
Some tanka are a 'rush of five lines down' and don't break into parts, some have two, or three, or four, or five parts.
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What is Tanka About?
Ah, tanka definition! Welcome to the favorite quarrel of armchair poets in Tankatown! I have generally refrained from offering much in the way of definition as I prefer to observe what happens rather than presume to dictate what 'should' happen.
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The names of the world's cheeses are a rich collection of words that beg to be rhymed as well as crackered and tasted.
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Sharpen your memory of matters piscatorial, ichthyological puns, and finny funnies floating in fissures. This poem is best read aloud with eyes on the page. You may meet previously unknown creatures of the undersea.
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Read a Kerry Wood's Shakespearean sonnet delineating the solitary satisfaction and mental therapy that accompany poetic journaling.
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Mad Ophelia distributing flowers in Hamlet inspired this poetic garden romp. Watch for the sounds, sights, and subliminal suggestions of flower and plant names.
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More than a simple alphabet poem, this playful verse names in dactylic tetrameter items on display in a Curiosity Shop. We begin with artifacts that adumbrate ancient amenities and progress to zodiac symbols and items imported from Zurich and Zanzibar without missing any of the twenty-six letters.
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Spring is a wonderful time that evokes lively emotions, after a period of wintry cold. Join the poet as she celebrates spring, through her expressions of delight and happiness.
- She Dreams
- In Memory of Dad Anslem Dcosta
- A Tribute to my Great Aunt Greta
- In His Presence
- Poetry Analysis: My Papa's Waltz, by Theodore Roethke
- Poetry Analysis: E. E. Cummings
- Poetry Analysis: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, by T.S. Eliot
- Poetry Analysis: Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden
- What Makes a Tanka Memorable?