Wednesday 7 April 2010

NaPoWriMo Prompt #7 Tanka

fireflies beckon
sparklers in the darkest night
twinkling as beacons
lovers lust in the moonlight
shimmering flitting glow worm

Tanka

Robert Lee Brewer says,
"If a haiku is usually (mistakenly) thought of as a 3-line, 5-7-5 syllable poem, then the tanka would be a 5-line, 5-7-5-7-7 syllable poem."

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