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.
Fireman’s Angel
Leaning to his right farewell
A remembrance dwell
Ice sculpture by ‘darling’ belle
A nine won one spell
Eyes and heads ‘pulled’ down
Exotic weapons around
Small talk of the town
Melt steel girders by ACE drown
Turn to dust a reddish brown
To void or to null;
Just a thought — a ‘miracle!’
To smile at death’s skull
And fight storms eventful lull
Golden fire, ball of gull
Three more samples of tanka in monorhyme.
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Work:
Working hard again
Credit card goddess campaign
Try to ascertain
Fun boss, bad mouthing refrain
Apologies entertain.
Family and Rant:
‘Maw’s P/T time guide
Exercise pulley we tried
Run upstairs to hide.
Blog about small world with pride
Dare not hurt myself outside.
Two more samples of tanka in monorhyme.
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All things come to pass.
Burp and fart my stinky gas
Dreaded card lass
From my mouth and out my ass
My perfection to surpass
Email work lunch sends
Sushi and saki with ‘friends’
Resume depends
New skill sets she recommends
Campai attitude depends
Two more samples of tanka in monorhyme.
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Family:
‘Paw’s fried rice and eggs
Tastier while ‘Maw’ rests legs
Empty stomach begs
Saved from starving without kegs
Daughter happy as fat pegs
Nature:
Smell metallic air
Hurry into gray car mare
Early morning swear
Little clouds, light blue skies fair
Metallic air stuck in hair
Work:
More crap of the day
On Friday the thirteen way
Smelly fish away
Credit card desk disarray
Felonious creep drafts delay
VP of Finance
Making noise as the tools dance
Auditors in trance
New manager won’t take chance
I was right all along stance!
Nature and Work:
Lots of wispiness
As the afternoon progress
Noone to impress
Amidst all the dumb work stress
Lateral with no success
Faith and Rant:
Early evening sleep
Cannot quit thanks to fat creep
Silence of the peep
Community service weep
Not good news for PJ sheep
Five more samples of tanka in monorhyme.
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Decade old remark
Said to me, ‘Joan of Arc’?
My blue eyed guy bark
A small town of ‘two-cats’ mark
Par l’honneur and a dog park
Remembered a dark
Place bikers hang out like sharks
Listened to his hark
More than librarians stark
In his happy arm to lark
A southern most town
Driven up the hilly brown
Statue end by crown
Old land workers home worn down
Millionaires home all around
As memories drown
Hand his flowers with a frown
Momma’s boy that clown!
Phone slammed in my ear — cut down
No tattoo or wedding gown
A poem of four tanka in monorhyme.
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Damn those dark cahoots!
Proved by paternity suits
Pen-filled life dilutes
Worthless papers by recruits
Attack problems per grass roots
Medicine pollutes
By watered marriage refutes
Glamoured tool of hoots
Dried tears of mother from toots
Foil astern for laundry chutes
Love baby not loots!
Return her to bloodline roots
No more vile disputes!
Appeals or hearings of moot?
Or behind closed door of shoots!
Photogenic routes
Remembered first love’s pursuits
Second cowboy boots
Vested potential computes
Kicking bad butts he salutes
Four more samples of tanka in monorhyme.
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Work:
Leave behind the ‘spits’
Time has come to call the quits
Battle of the writs
Arbitrary rights acquits
Signed work to silence permits
Data entry sits
Cubicle home of snake pits
Burping sound emits
Letting out green boogered spits
Frustrate the system with fits
Hard worker admits
The glass ceiling with all its glitz
Play the safety blitz
Full-time slave to her commits
To fly away from their blitz
People:
Teeth to the hard grits
To ‘carry’ the baby gets
By overworked slits
Relative only befits
Love of family submits
Four more samples of tanka in monorhyme.
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Puzzle sodoku
Per guide of nine three five clue
My initials knew
His on upper left hand too
Six, six, six sky healing crew
‘Bowing’ buddy flies
Bids more fuel lack of supplies
Stuck with bed flu cries
Liberals fed us two lies
with blissful feud in the skies
Two more samples of tanka in monorhyme.
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It’s never too late!
No emergency too great
Those who could relate
Government sponsored berate
No one’s going to die: Wait!
Two calls from work
‘Sickos’; ‘Ex-Ball’ berserk
My unconcerned smirk
Not having a back-up clerk
Good via management lurk
Old fart A/R boss
Second witch from ‘Oh Yeah!’ toss
Fun department floss
Like ‘See-Aye-Aye’ plugs to gloss
Prepare for the lay-off loss
‘Aura’ and ‘Hard Core’
Will continue their survey
Which key to portray
As keepers for their display
Titles, pay, H/R essay
I am not a tool!
Don’t play me for a fool!
Wall flower jewel.
To grin and bear a thick drool
Till the day I make brown stool.
Five more samples of tanka in monorhyme.
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Family and Rant:
Early morning wake
Got lost to have a fast break
At the seven make
Filled out more forms for their sake
Waiting room my home and stake
Construction site stink
Stared out windows without blink
Prayed and wondered think
About my unified link
And how they coincide sync
Re-hydrated too much
Sat and exercised and such
Tired to keep in touch
Drank coffee and tea as crutch
Ate ‘Paw’s turkey sandwich clutch
Family and People:
Elder lady Bond
With strong accent blue eyed blonde
Knows how to respond
Wheel chaired ‘Maw’ to car beyond
Bid our farewells to her fond
‘Onion,’ girl came by
Clowned lazy girl’s gardened shy
‘Onion’s’ morn call, ‘Hi.’
Girl washed our dishes good-bye.
‘Maw’s words to boy soothe imply.
Faith:
Imaged as a God
Incroyable how I forgot
I could never rot
Through lot, with dot and in spot
in the unity of Grok
Five more samples of tanka in monorhyme.
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Pretending in vain
Oh God! Here we go again
Relative kinds feign
Smiles and hugs without rich lane
Fake pictures of love no pain
Angered mind to show
Old granny’s untrimmed nails grow.
Hair smelled of pee flow
Pictures evidenced to sow
December two years ago
Eldest daughter smile
Happy to greet in old Paw style
Granny looked pissed bile
Sitting there bored not hostile
Two siblings chat for awhile
Went back to car Maw
Waiting with our calm
Expect nonsense bomb
from Uncle Dead’s verbal prom
and his smoking balm
Four more samples of tanka in monorhyme.
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It’s their rightful land
Illegal to come in as planned
Workers on demand
Caretakers of soil and sand
Cleaned air, fresh water expand
Criminals to chop
Allow the good and kind cop
Open honest shop
Drugs and alcohol must stop!
Proud to mop or teach on top.
No fear to loose jobs.
Any kind than lazy slobs
Honesty: no mobs
Humble yet not being snobs
Learn to share, report who robs
A poem of three tanka in monorhyme.
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