Image by Adina Voicu from Pixabay
Nightfall approaching
Bright illumination fades
Dimming all around
Nest-ward birds return to roost
And in inky blackness sleep
Padre
The Tanka form in English is a poem of five lines with a 5/7/5/7/7 syllable structure. A true Japanese Tanka counts thirty-one sounds as the Japanese do not count syllables in Haiku or Tanka. These poems typically do not have a rhyme structure.
Colleen’s 2019 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 140 #SynonymsOnly:
The two words for this week:
Padre's Ramblings 