List: Japanese form:~ tanka

                   

Tanka: original Japanese poetry form, predating haiku by hundreds of years.
Traditionally 5 lines of approx 31 syllables maximum.

For examples of original Japanese waka (tanka) poetry, see: etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/hyakunin/index.html

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• Arising

  (tanka)

  18 lines, 100 comments, on Jan 6 9:36 AM 2005. In Haiku, Spiritual, Love
• Anamnesis (tanka)

  '

  14 lines, 52 comments, on Dec 29 8:33 AM 2004. In Haiku, Tanka, Personal, Spiritual
• As One (tanka)

  Embraced by your eyes
  

  10 lines, 33 comments, on Aug 17 12:02 PM 2004. In Haiku, Spiritual, Love
• Heart & Soul (tanka)

  Soul unseen yet felt
  

  29 lines, 38 comments, on Dec 30 7:52 AM 2003. In Haiku, Spiritual, Love
• LOTUS (oriku)

  (acrostic tanka)

  9 lines, 43 comments, on Jan 12 4:32 AM 2005. In Oriku, Tanka, Haiku, Spiritual, Nature
• Pure Light (tanka)

  Centre-point - Pure Light
  the Jewel in the Crown's

  17 lines, 15 comments, on Jan 1 3:07 PM 2004. In Haiku, Spiritual, Other
• Ouroboros

  In the Beginning

  13 lines, 25 comments, on Jul 4 10:15 AM 2004. In Spiritual, Love, Contemporary
• Rosa Mystica (oriku)

  (oriku *1)
  Rise

  16 lines, 39 comments, on Jan 15 2:23 AM 2005. In Haiku, Spiritual, Nature
• Roses (oriku)

  (oriku *2)
  Regal

  18 lines, 21 comments, on Jan 16 2:24 AM 2005. In Haiku, Nature, Love
• Emerald Isle (Tanka)

  Gentle soul, I hear
  where hate abounds and surrounds

  13 lines, 10 comments, on Dec 31 12:48 AM 2003. In Spiritual, Other, Hope
• Tanka for Tenku

  17 lines, 14 comments, on Dec 31 12:27 AM 2003. In Haiku, Spiritual, Other

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