This thread is just like the haiku thread, except with tanka Please use the last line of the tanka before yours as the second line of your tanka. (Modifications made because of differences in syllable counts between haiku and tanka.)
Traditional tanka typically have the following features:
- mix themes of nature with human feelings
- have a 'turning point' or a twist in the second last line
- little to no punctuation
BUT feel free to write non-traditional tanka here as well!
Here is a tanka to start, and I've underlined the line to use:
i read that tanka
were originally sung
in a river stream
which runs loudly gutter-borne
through the streets, the roads to home
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