Haiku!
Blogging's really hard sorry for the long absence... nah I'm not sorry. - a haiku, by me. Hello everyone! After many many months, I'm back! Today for school I was told to write some haiku and a tanka for english. For those of you who don't know, a tanka is a Japanese style of poem invented over twelve hundred years ago. The Emperor of Japan actually still holds a tanka writing competition to celebrate the new year! Tanka are short and lyrical poems, traditionally consisting of 31 syllables. In Japanese, tanka follow a pattern of syllables like haiku - 5, 7, 5, 7, 7, 5. A tanka doesn't rhyme, but it makes use of metaphor, similies, and other things. Here is an example of a tanka, written by Komachi Ono in the mid tenth century AD. The blossom’s tint is washed away By heavy showers of rain; My charms, which once I prize