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Old August 28, 2009, 06:01 PM
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Tanka Game

Like Haiku game, we have to write Tankas, here it goes:
Tanka game. It's a little more difficult than haiku but, for me, a lot more enjoyable:

'...consta de un primer verso de cinco sílabas,
de uno de siete, de uno de cinco y de dos últimos de siete.
...
La forma original prescinde asimismo de rimas
'

The format is: 5-7-5-7-7

English examples:

1.



Furusato no
.....ono no kodachi ni
fue no ne no
.....urumu tsukiyo ya.
In her village
.....
in a stand of trees by a field
a flute's sound
.....blurs in the moonlit night.


2.
Shirogane mo................What are they to me,
Kogane mo tama mo....Silver, or gold, or jewels?
Nanisen ni.....................How could they ever
Masareru takara..........Equal the greater treasure
Koni shikame yamo.....
That is a child? They can not.

3.
Sending my soul away
To where the moon has sunk
Behind the mountain,
What shall I do with my body
Left in the darkness?


- Monk Saigyo (1118-1190)

4.
Broken by the sound of the wind
That plays on the bamboo leaves
Near the window,
A dream even shorter
Than my fleeting sleep.


- Princess Shikiski (1149-1201)




Spanish Examples:

1.
No haber caído,
como otros de mi sangre,
en la batalla.
Ser en la vana noche
el que cuenta las sílabas.


2.
Bajo la luna
el tigre de oro y sombra
mira sus garras.
No sabe que en el alba
han destrozado un hombre.


3.
Alto en la cumbre
todo el jardín es luna,
luna de oro.
Más precioso es el roce
de tu boca en la sombra.



Los tres de Borges.

Last edited by ookami; August 28, 2009 at 06:03 PM.
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