Tanka

Tanka is Japan's oldest poetry form.
Traditionally a tanka has five lines with 5-7-5-7-7 syllables.
If you know haiku, you know half of a tanka.
Unlike haiku, tanka encourage feelings and emotions.

Gone.

Wonder where they have
gone the young, strong and able.
Was it just a lie ?
It seems the price way to dear,
watching all your good friends die.



Sometimes running to the dictionary
is the only way to get the count right,
pronuncation changes from one reigon and
country, to the other.