Moonfruit (Experiments in Tanka)
Marocharim • July 10, 2009
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 [...]
There are things I'm afraid to tell myself. Instead, I choose to reveal them the world. In sickness, in spite, in all unpleasantness, even in disease. I'm a babbler, a ranter, a writer: neither spiteful nor kind, neither rascal or honorable man. Neither hero or vermin.
