TANKA are 31-syllable poems that have been the most popular form of poetry in Japan for at least 1300 years. As a form of poetry, tanka is older than haiku, and tanka poems evoke a moment or mark an occasion with concision and musicality. In English and other languages, we usually divide the lines into the five syllabic units: 5-7-5-7-7
you guys should try writing your own. i’m not as good with TANKA as i am with HAIKU…DOMO ARIGATO!!!
July 14, 2010
haha this is dope. I gotta send you the Haiku I wrote for you! ;]
July 14, 2010
He should have stayed here in Cleveland….not. He is definitely better off in Miami. I feel for his girlfriend though…. LOL
July 14, 2010
I never heard of tanka. I’m not creative at all, so you won’t see a haiku or tanka from me.
July 14, 2010
Vashtie With The Poetry In Moment…
July 14, 2010
hey vash—did you ever read my book? i have a few tanka in there!
i had no idea the style is older than haiku—good info to know. kudos
July 15, 2010
Now, now let’s be nice. He made a business move and he has to live his life, we don’t live it.
July 15, 2010
cool…I just moved to Miami
Im from a New York state of mind
This is a sunny city
Nothing like times square the downtown grind
home sick Lebron came just in time
July 16, 2010
*Chris Crocker voice*: leave. Lebron. Alonneeee!!!
lmao
July 20, 2010
Stop the Lebron disses he have to be the one to take care of the family not anyone else and stop that home town shit that team sucked I mean they had good players but they didn’t have great players and good don’t last that long shit when Kobe started out people hated him cause the team was losing but Kobe didn’t have great players around him to back up he’s talent intell Shaq came and now he got Lamar,Artest,Fisher, and others to back him up and look where they at now so now Lebron have two great players to back him up to get to the championship or at least to the playoffs so unless you going to shoot those three’s and pay he’s bills shut the hell up.