Exploring Poetry - Tanka

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Happy to welcome you all to week 8 of " Exploring Poetry  ".Take it as a challenge and try writing one and link it over below.


Todays Prompt :TANKA

1. It is a Japanese poem of five lines.
2. The first and the third lines composes of five syllables and the other lines has seven syllable.(Syllable is the count of how we pronounce a word.For example, poem is po -em counting to 2 syllable and wonderful is won-der-ful counting to 3 syllable)
3. Tanka is in the form of 1-2-3-4-5 lines with 5-7-5-7-7 syllable. 

Cartoon ,Sci-fi and Super Powers

Imaginary

the characters speaks volumes

of the funny side

played by the human in real

depicting a serious note

Ubiquitous sci-fi

physical work of human

diminish further

humans imaginations

gains life with perspiration

The sixth sense of mind

super power predictor

unravels mystery

of the future it beholds

value to win mind over fate

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The Seven Wonders of the World

A poetic form - Tanka

It is a Japanese poem of five lines, the first and third composed of five syllables and the other seven.Syllable is the count of how we pronounce a word.For example, poem is po -em counting to 2 syllable and wonderful is won-der-ful counting to 3 syllable.Tanka is in the form of 1-2-3-4-5 lines with 5-7-5-7-7 syllable.In my poem I write about the magnificent man made constructions in Tanka form with free style writing.

Build as a defense

from the attacks of tribals

The longest structure

runs curving the earth

Its the great wall of china

A monument built

in memory of his wife

on Agra in India

by Shah Jahan to Mumtaz

Taj Mahal ,a love befall

The Chichen Itza
links with Mayan's Calender
with 91 steps
and with top platform counts to
Three Hundered and sixty five

In Rio de Janiero

He stands 120 feet tall

with his arms widespread

made of concrete and soapstone

welcomes Christ ,The redeemer

An amphitheater

build with eighty entrances
The grand colosseum
the monument entralls
50,000 spectators

Two thousand feet above

river Urubamba in Peru

enclosing remains

of observatory is

The ruins of Machu Picchu

About 800

individual monuments

carved magnificiently from

kaleidoscopic sandstone

Petra in Jorden