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.

  • 20061208-Daily Diary

    Streetlights flickered off
    as I drove on my way home
    near a greasy place.
    One forty-four thousand trough
    is owed by her saving grace.

    Another attempt at tanka poetry.

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

  • 20061125-Fools’ Blingos

    The hidden brothers
    ate the forbidden apple.
    To be among fun
    but none of them passed the test
    for the eternity bliss.

    They are seven knights
    who fight to keep us alive.
    Here is a postscript:
    They cannot buy love for us.
    Love is greater than honey.

    Two samples of tanka with no end rhymes.

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

  • 20061108-Fell Flying

    Let me out, I quit!
    Fell in the Bottomless pit.
    Leave no one behind
    or my DNA to find
    per a fire’s secret writ.

    Release us, we pray,
    from the brightest sunshine day!
    Fallen angels fly
    within the infinite ‘Pi’
    and without the constant ‘K.’

    Two samples of tanka poems with aabba pattern.

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

  • 20061106-Blank Mind

    Blanked my mind tonight!
    Focused on stilling the noise
    from my mind with good
    thoughts for all to awaken.
    Heard nothing and saw gray scene.

    Another attempt at tanka.

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

  • 20061105-Stinky Stang

    I drive a gray horse –
    This color of black and white
    is my compliment.
    It spews the smell of decay
    after ten years of fighting.

    New license plate shows
    the numbers four, four and five-
    like my phone number.
    Forty-four, a fifth square prime
    and happy, octahedral.

    A poem of two tanka.

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

  • 20061029-Beauty Marks

    Red dots and red spots
    appear almost every day
    on porcelain plain.
    Not grotesque but beautiful
    in every possible way.

    Brown ones and black moles
    lightly stained by painter’s hands
    on canvas of white.
    Dark fur tanned under the sun
    and over rivers of blue.

    Two samples of tanka poems.

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

  • 20060713-Two Ways

    Warm:
    Burning desires
    of an unquenchable thirst.
    Fill me with your love.
    Satisfaction guaranteed.
    Blissful screams warmed with motion.

    Cool:
    Everlasting hugs
    of unconditional love.
    Wrap me in your arms.
    Calm reflections supersede.
    Peaceful fondness cooled like ocean.

    First attempt at combining tanka and modified cinquain (with two examples)…

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

  • 20060628-Blue Hue

    One April morning
    bluest skies were overhead.
    I soaked sun in bed.
    Bedroom windows opened wide
    with happy thoughts while inside.

    Sun’s warmth relaxed me.
    I napped until nine some more.
    And I did not snore
    and was out of bed and the door.
    I was late but work ignore.

    With carefree feelings
    my driving was normal speed.
    Two trails spread its seed.
    Old folks biked around the block.
    I dreamt to go for a walk.

    Morning was cloudless.
    At one-forty clouds of white
    were formed as I write.
    Fluffy and pretty, behold.
    Sylphs, generations unfold.

    Fresh air, clean water,
    and clean hearts: the human race.
    Blue skies, better place,
    and thoughts: purple, pink and blue.
    Sun is golden colored hue.

    First attempt at tanka (with five examples)…
    Revised original 20060418-Fresh Blue (deleted)…

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