Double Tanka <br />Sixty-two syllables: <br /> <br />Japanese poets <br />made the tanka popular <br />in the long ago <br />'Myriad Leaves Collection' <br />showed tankas to perfection. <br /> <br />Quite acceptable <br />back in sixteen sixty-five <br />short verse came alive. <br />Tanka was a work of art <br />in poetry from the heart.<br /><br />Joyce Hemsley<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/japanese-verse/
