
Scene from mountain top
Horizon beyond valley
A seamless landscape
Tree tops merge with long grey clouds
The sun diffuses soft light
Seen from the valley
Mountain stretched to evening sky
One ends, one begins
Soft clouds caress leafy ridge
Dappled light on granite stone
Write a poem with the structure of a tanka (5 lines with 5-7-5-7-7 syllables). Prompt from The Daily Post. Subject inspiration from a walk this evening, using a sequence of two tanka. I had no idea about the structure of a haiku or a tanka and had never attempted to do either until writing this post. What a challenge! I scratched my head a bit trying to work out the number of syllables in some of the words I used, saying the words out loud while counting on my fingers. This site helped in the end, even allowing entry of a whole sentence for a syllable count. I had a lot of fun writing this post and look forward to playing with this form of poetry again…