Archive for July 10th, 2009

Moonfruit (Experiments in Tanka)

Posted: 10th July 2009 by Marocharim in Practice Sessions

I don’t know what’s up with the #moonfruit hashtags over at Twitter, but it kind of makes me think of tanka. From what little I can remember of Literature class, tanka is the oldest form of poetry in Japan.  The arrangement of the moras (syllables… verses… whatever, I’m not a poet) go 5-7-5-7-7.  It’s very [...]