Tanka? No Thank Ya [Poetry: Anytime, Anyplace…]

Poetry: Anytime, Anyplace, About Anything – Tanka? No Thank Ya

By, Donna M. Monnig

Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt was to write a tanka, which is a poem based on the syllable pattern 5-7-5-7-7. For Day Eleven I give you “Tanka? No Thank Ya.”

Tanka? No Thank Ya

 

Poems based on syllables

Not my cup of tea, I say.

What is the telos?

There is no point, said my muse,

So, next time, let me please choose.

 

Just choose words next time,

Of syllables worry not.

Do free verse or rhyme,

Just write of what you have thought.

Free expression is no crime.

 

Shakespeare had sonnets;

Berryman had dreamsongs too;

Some even write haiku.

I may not be famous but

I will write in my own way.

 

©Donna M. Monnig

 

NaPoWriMo prompt: Day Eleven