Flynn's Paws: My Thoughts, My Gripes

Tag: tanka

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.

  • 20070428-Sea Critters

    Mammals-People:
    Dead dolphin-safe food?
    Whalers raping oceans crude
    ‘Purposes’ subdued
    Netters profiting delude
    Clubbing ‘fur’ baby seal nude

    Fish-Friends:
    Tuna sandwich screwed
    Stylish sushi made from brood!
    Worming ways intrude
    Shark fin soup, the rest exclude
    Bloody fishermen in feud

    Crustacean-Crawl:
    Grilled shrimp butter skewed
    Lobster tails in boiling stewed
    Crawdads crunchy chewed
    Crab legs in defensive rood
    Like lice and spiders eschewed

    Mollusk-Hard:
    Clam and oyster mood
    Slimy escargot snails spewed
    Mussels filter spewed
    Ornamental scallops viewed
    Aba-lone décor seclude

    Mollusk-Soft:
    Small but mindful shrewd
    Curious, large eyeful cued
    Playful squid face mask glued
    Colorful cuttlefish dude
    Chop-sticked octopus tattooed

    Five sins of eating tanka in monorhyme.

    Copyright © 2007 by Fluffy von der Flynn. All rights reserved.

  • 20070428-Peep Keepers

    Bigger not better!
    Fatter not healthy sweater
    Man made laws letter
    Fraud, lies, deceitful debtor
    Slave work controlled wage setter

    Not larger than life
    Falling harder with more strife
    Downward point of knife
    What shares go around with rife
    Sound the horns of shrill tone fife

    Hear the smaller voice
    Little or nothing rejoice
    Many paths by choice
    Bigger brothers help to hoist
    Just my thought like streaming Joyce

    Three more samples of tanka in monorhyme.

    Copyright © 2007 by Fluffy von der Flynn. All rights reserved.

  • 20070428-Daily Diary

    Hot, wet and sticky
    Chemtrails streaks blue skies icky
    Some photos quickie
    At ‘Maw’s MRI picky
    Above our house quite tricky

    Light brown haze mucky
    Outdoor sylphs plants shop plucky
    Blue hill haze lucky
    Water grass blue Kentucky
    And CB to ward off yucky

    Two more samples of tanka in monorhyme.

    Copyright © 2007 by Fluffy von der Flynn. All rights reserved.

  • 20070427-His Way

    A court clears the way
    Beneficiaries say
    Guardianship nay
    No to her fat ass dismay
    His parental rights outweigh!

    My position is
    Cute baby belongs to his
    Yet another quiz
    Love conquers their oily biz
    Among photographic wiz

    Two more tanka in monorhyme about the baby of Anna Nicole-Smith and the father.

    Copyright © 2007 by Fluffy von der Flynn. All rights reserved.

  • 20070427-Jerk Kneeing

    Kick in your fat ass!
    Oil contractors betray lass
    Pay of high priced gas
    Ritual of blood war mass
    Hire assassins harass

    Break through looking glass
    Doorway where noone shall pass
    Failure of the class
    Test their resolve of the brass
    Propose noone behind last

    Don’t tread on me sass!
    Angles sad knowing alas
    Selfishness surpass
    Bringing home to greenest grass
    Icy realm of deep blue bass

    Three more samples of tanka in monorhyme.

    Copyright © 2007 by Fluffy von der Flynn. All rights reserved.

  • 20070426-Josh Kidding

    Pitch to laughing strive
    Lunchbox meeting hotel thrive
    Lovely mind-set hive
    John’s kodiak and five-two-five
    Jack’s killers: Love will survive.

    One more sample of tanka in monorhyme.

    Copyright © 2007 by Fluffy von der Flynn. All rights reserved.

  • 20070426-Our Meme-oir

    Body:
    Aah-coo and welcome!
    Smart, curious and dumb
    Assimilate or succumb
    Together we will become
    Words, actions, in-DEED sum

    Mind:
    Mind injecting numb?
    From rags to riches to scum
    Whiny women cum
    Drugs and alcohols and rum
    War or peas or inner slum

    Soul:
    Piggybacking chum
    Care for some sugarless gum?
    Sharing of the thumb
    Question faith believing bum
    Love and compassion by some

    Spirit:
    Songs inviting strum
    Echoing units of hum
    Voiced thoughts hearing drum
    Freedom break secrecy mum
    Eternally yours to plumb

    Four more samples of tanka in monorhyme.

    Copyright © 2007 by Fluffy von der Flynn. All rights reserved.

  • 20070425-Five Sting

    Five telephone rings
    Three and thirty P.M. swings
    Government nothings
    Call trace ‘JB’ and his kings
    Phone van waiting fifth call wings

    One more sample of tanka in monorhyme.

    Copyright © 2007 by Fluffy von der Flynn. All rights reserved.

  • 20070424-Daily Diary

    Lone pigeon sitting
    Twice last week in the morning
    On wire preening
    Flocks of bird in white flying
    Afternoon from work sighing

    Puff cloud of round ball
    This morning as traffics crawl
    ‘Greetings!’ my thoughts call
    Light blue sky above enthrall
    Same yesterday recall

    Sunny all day long
    Crispy clear blue skies belong
    Past few days prolong
    Singing to puffy clouds song
    Spinning sun faster and strong

    Wide rifts of dark holes
    Bright ball of angelic goals
    Stop death dark controls
    Releasing spirits from souls
    Fracturing illusion rolls

    Hyper, hot shaking
    Ice cream bars and quick picking
    Parakeets sleeping
    ‘Maw’s rapid mouth unending
    ‘Paw’s’ quiet ways unchanging

    Five more samples of tanka in monorhyme.

    Copyright © 2007 by Fluffy von der Flynn. All rights reserved.

  • 20070424-Disco Cut

    Beck and call to cut
    In front of me his rude strut
    A revenue mutt
    Shark eye girl in billing hut
    His fake American smut

    Aiming is her mess
    Reporting with no progress
    Laughs out loud obsess
    Detours from glen to impress
    Coughs her middle cut distress

    An old more on list
    A tort and thumb constant pissed
    Dude right’s coughing mist
    From wood chucks to noisy fist
    Watch my aisle for any missed

    ‘LeNaval’ again
    Nice snacks and treats to me gain
    Appease anger reign
    Make more noise to prove explain
    At vices on gravy train

    Cut another brat
    For not playing tit-for-tat
    Anger in combat
    Notwithstanding new boss pat
    Won’t continue race of rat

    Five more samples of tanka in monorhyme.

    Copyright © 2007 by Fluffy von der Flynn. All rights reserved.

  • 20070422-Spirit Guides

    Black bird crows crossing
    From left to right while driving
    Not really minding
    Past two weeks they were flying
    Of my matrix path crossing

    One more sample of tanka in monorhyme.

    Copyright © 2007 by Fluffy von der Flynn. All rights reserved.

  • 20070422-Daily Diary

    Cramping on bed lies
    Fleshy body in disguise
    Two weeks salt unwise
    Animal fat big butt size
    Chocolate snacks in my thighs

    Open window sighs
    Fluffy clouds and light blue skies
    Pink purple swirls flies
    Dreaming twice behind three eyes
    Zapping my cramping goodbyes

    Drink water tries
    Flush saltiness with each rise
    Clear before the eyes
    Filling toilet with brown prize
    Air fresh next fluffy cloud highs

    Three more samples of tanka in monorhyme.

    Copyright © 2007 by Fluffy von der Flynn. All rights reserved.