Tanka consists of five units (often treated as separate lines when Romanized or translated) usually with the following mora pattern: 5-7-5-7-7.
Crispy clear blue skies
Beautiful puffy white clouds
Blessings in disguise
Praises sent through cool breezes
Singing of birds through the trees
A small tanka about the pleasant weather we’ve been having in the Bay Area for the whole of summer 2007 with some gray clouds last weekend in the morning giving way to clear blue skies — ahh!
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You are not my friend!
You never were or will be —
My friend to the end…
How could you all cross my path
To feed my hatred and wrath?
You left me alone!
I had nowhere else to flee.
I am not a loan.
Am I at fault for loving
When push comes to your shoving?
You all taught me well.
Why don’t you understand me —
My heaven and hell?
By blogs and poems, I’ve penned.
Until we meet again, Friend.
A rationale tanka about being emotionally wronged by alleged ‘friends’.
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Sit at the right hand
Of the Father by the Sun
The Holy Spirit
Blessed be his whoa(!)-man kind
All done and said, you’re all mine!
A ‘Jesus’ poem of truthful tanka in free-verse.
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Double the third eyes
To observe as secret spies
Upon people wise
Forehead high two spots disguise
Seeking out the truth and lies
A supernatural sample of watching tanka in monorhyme.
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Having too much fun
Thank you for the one on one!
Knowing what I’ve done
Everything has just begun.
To take off for good and run!
Bye!
Another happy sample of freedom tanka in monorhyme.
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Freedom temptation
All hard work; no vacation
Out of frustration
Interests conflict — vocation
Mind, body, soul salvation
A ‘letter of concern’ tanka in monorhyme.
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Another sad tale
‘Ragging’ fat ass to fed nail
By green lizards’ tail
Tip Justice and Balance scale
Anger and hatred prevail!
Notoriety
By secret society
Impropriety
Elitist variety
Separate anxiety
A dark sample of transacting tanka in monorhyme.
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Leaning to my right
Reading of a loving site
Pakistan boys plight
By mullahs of jihad fight
Flash rolls bright to eyeball right
A minor sample of floating tanka in monorhyme around 12:30PM.
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Work related code
Synchronicity node
Email address mode
License plate while on the road
Land line number western toad
A surprising sample of relative tanka in monorhyme.
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Ask for help, no sweat
To forgive or to forget
Receive without debt
Loving always without threat
Faith believing, want to bet?
Two A.M. blogging
Thoughts of ‘nod’ flinging
Zap! Away heartfelt singing
Gone! Head, ear pressures zinging
Lying in comfort bringing
Another restful sample of thankful tanka in monorhyme.
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Lucid dreaming time
Midnight snack attacking chime
Thoughts of ‘nod’ sublime
Feet massage by unseen mime
Heartfelt shocking by his prime
One relaxing sample of meditative tanka in monorhyme.
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Amazingly clear!
Blue skies everywhere and here
With twelfth floor career
Windows to girl’s mind austere
Tube shaped sunshine, blue-green sphere
One natural sample of work-related tanka in monorhyme.
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