One more word about the form

    Like a haiku that,
Awakening from dreams, dreams on
    From sleep's closing door,
The tanka's vision lives on
For fourteen syllables more.

—John Hollander, Rhyme's Reason (3rd ed.), p.68

I may have mentioned before how much I love this book. Once or thrice.

---L.

One more word about the form

    Like a haiku that,
Awakening from dreams, dreams on
    From sleep's closing door,
The tanka's vision lives on
For fourteen syllables more.

—John Hollander, Rhyme's Reason (3rd ed.), p.68

I may have mentioned before how much I love this book. Once or thrice.

---L.