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.

  • 20070321-Daily Diary

    Nature and Rant:

    Early morning rise
    At six with wide opened eyes
    To greet and good byes
    No traffic with clear blue skies
    By seven at work, quite wise

    Family and Work:

    Crap at work again
    Queried if happy explain
    Stressed angers contain
    No support to her complain
    No assurance from this strain

    Eleven half past
    Tried to finish old work fast
    Emailed long lunch cast
    Drove Mom waited behind glass
    Longs, food, bank to six at last

    Nature and Rant:

    Homeward slowly drive
    Lone cloud east mountain strives
    and good feeling lives
    Dumb sealed search warrant deprives
    Recycling plant survives

    Family and Rant:

    Summoned to make bed
    Worked with parents little said
    And rosary dread
    Dinner served until well fed
    Good evening my sleepy head

    Five more samples of tanka in monorhyme.

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

  • 20070320-Daily Diary

    Work:

    Mindless compliance
    Hard-working word reliance
    Narrative science
    Meetings with my defiance
    Flick the Boogered alliance

    Whiteness covered rains
    Pelted twelfth floor window panes
    Pissed off and in pain
    Still stuck with these fool-filled vains
    Automatic lay-off feigns

    Nature:

    Saucers and dumbbells
    Evening clouds, blue skies, fresh smells
    More refreshing spells
    After stuck with these fools’ sells
    Cumulous cloud tells

    Family:

    ‘Paw’ re-hydrated brain
    More color to his face gain
    Water – don’t abstain.
    Reduces the aches and pain
    Dry coughs less but more to drain

    People:

    Man hated project
    Governed by burning Bush wrecked
    Spitting lies infect
    Helpless on closer inspect
    River bank of disrespect

    More lies from abroad
    His very being she clawed
    Fist clenched with tight jawed
    Moral and legally flawed
    Projects left in stupor awed

    Family and Nature:

    Plucked the red threads
    Whistled as parakeet sheds
    Bobbing of their heads
    ‘Maw’s cotton sweat pants of dreads
    Pulled like tire treads

    Seven more samples of tanka in monorhyme.

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

  • 20070319-Daily Diary

    Family:

    ‘Maw’ listened and sat
    To deep sleep of snoring brat
    Supine on bed flat
    Didn’t hear the pitter pat
    On marooned gold, parlor matt.

    Nature:

    Morning white chem-trails
    Works and sounds and sandwich sales
    Wispy clouds prevails!
    Purple clouds, long whales
    Medium gray blue of sails

    Faith and Work:

    Had a déjà vu
    At the P.M two five two
    With the cash apps crew
    Of getting to know her too
    Formers of the ‘Oh Yeah!’ zoo.

    Family:

    ‘Paw’ reports his drawl
    ‘Onion’s last minute phone call
    No help to recall
    Tongue stitches at two – a stall
    To teach, ‘NO!’ and with no fall

    Flynn:

    My tummy aching:
    Two days sleeping but waking
    Rumbling and shaking
    Ham, chicken, sausage taking
    Three, anti-site pills breaking.

    Five more samples of tanka in monorhyme.

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

  • 20070315-Daily Diary

    Faith and Family:

    Alarm knocks downstairs
    and wall pop sounded with cares —
    Eight A.M. day-mares?
    No Mom in sight who declares!
    Parents at church with prayers!

    After my full dress,
    I went downstairs to access –
    Nothing but plain air I guess!
    Sent my thank you – fast express
    The Invisibles transgress.

    Work:

    ‘Sickos’ to buy us
    Per this morning’s headline press.
    Two meetings impress
    Upon self-fulfilled progress
    which speculate with success.

    I’ll count on more stress
    And work hard to be the best.
    Can’t afford to dress
    And don’t care for I profess.
    I walked around in distress.

    Nature and Rant:

    After the meeting
    Took one pic of cloud fleeting.
    Called for one greeting
    At home a dinner sitting
    By nine P.M. completing.

    Five more samples of tanka in monorhyme.

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

  • 20070314-Daily Diary

    Two flying geese thrill
    Slowly to west side with skill
    Moist morning and chill
    Waning moon of white fulfill
    Medium blue skies still

    Lots of wispiness
    Light blue skies feathered caress
    Many days of tendril express
    Praying Mother to us Bless
    Golden Face relief no stress

    Two more samples of tanka in monorhyme.

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

  • 20070313-Daily Diary

    Flynn:

    Left early for lunch
    High noon with feeling poop punch
    Emergency hunch
    Relief on toilet bowl bunch
    Parent bought egg rolls for lunch.

    Dental office fix
    Paid one two five dollar ticks
    Souvenirs molds bricks
    Soft pink putty to hard brown mix
    Night guard for TMJ clicks

    Happy with a cluck
    Theft alarm hot – car stuck
    Time twenty no luck
    Called insurance then tow truck
    Thirty minutes wait – a schmuck.

    Faith and People:

    Hark! David John Munoz!
    Elder one ‘spoked’ deep blue eyes
    Santa’s white hair guise
    Magic touch – God’s friendly guys
    Sign of cross to clear blue skies

    Coffee money pour
    Happy smile rapport
    Garcia Senior.
    Called for bad and good news bore
    No more metal to the floor.

    Five more poem of tanka in monorhyme.

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

  • 20070311-Fly Black

    Black fly on white wall
    I bade it: ‘Leave – go away!’
    Eyes could not find fly.
    Black fly sat on green pillow,
    did not move and looked at me.

    My back scratching stick
    nudged the sleeping fly awake.
    Still fly did not move
    and was not ordinary.
    Scared fly jumped on my right thumb.

    A poem of two tanka.

    Author’s note: Occurred around 08:55PM-09:00PM.

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

  • 20070310-Dream Journal

    20061122:
    Dreamt of a number
    First may be one, five, oh, won
    or one, six, owe, one.

    20061125 and 20061129:
    Two cross formations
    First four, large gold and white blobs
    Second small red blobs

    20070403:
    Dreamt twice five people
    Alicia or Alison
    Two to my left side
    One in front. One to my right
    poured liquid into her cup.

    20070304:
    Two gray colored sites
    Zero on top, one below
    Flight from left to right

    20070306:
    I had a dream one night
    About a winged flight
    From zero to one – twice stopping at the right ledge:
    A man with outstretched hands
    by the bright yellow sands
    on lower left of elliptic island’s pledge.

    A poem of four haiku, one tanka and one patterned after Robert Burns.

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

  • 20051222-Bearing Gifts

    A gift of your seed
    from the right hand of Father
    has been well received
    for the sake of our dear Mother.
    Remember to love each other.

    Another attempt at tanka poetry.

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

  • 20060923-Project Scream!

    Hey! Come on! Don’t sue!
    We are friends and not strangers!
    I hate all of you!
    They are dark, offshore dangers
    and greedy money changers.

    Another attempt at tanka poetry.

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

  • 20070216-Gray Scene

    Awaken! Gray mist
    from your slumber this morning!
    Drivers and buildings
    covered. The Bay Area
    was nothing from the twelfth floor.

    Another attempt at tanka.

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

  • 20070119-Evening Maul

    A male cousin ‘ball’
    Investor’s referral crawl
    Desperation pall
    Via a long distance call
    Converse in a drunken drawl

    Ten percent too small
    Monthly payments to install
    Two-hundred fifty cash haul
    In trust funds and fargo’s wall
    Run far away! Lawyers stall

    Two more samples of tanka in monorhyme.

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