Mike Hammer's entry for the Small Worlds contest in Ohio Poetry Day 2024
44779 Street
House.
Show. Tonight.
A
grand piano
in
a tiny living room.
Eye
Vree Tickla is on tour.
i was recognized as an Honorable Mention for this poem
i do not usually do form poetry
but this contest was sponsored by my friend, writer Rhonda Baughman
so i chose to enter to support her
the contest guidelines were to enter a 5 line poem that is in the tanka or limerick or cinqain form
i chose the tanka form, and wrote a modified tanka, which is a traditional 5 line Japanese poem, a 'short song'
according to poets.org
the tanka is a thirty-one-syllable poem, traditionally written in a single unbroken line. A form of waka, Japanese song or verse, tanka translates as “short song,” and is better known in its five-line, 5/7/5/7/7 syllable count form.
