Double Tanka
Sixty-two syllables:
Japanese poets
made the tanka popular
in the long ago
'Myriad Leaves Collection'
showed tankas to perfection.
Quite acceptable
back in sixteen sixty-five
short verse came alive.
Tanka was a work of art
in poetry from the heart.
Joyce Hemsley
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/japanese-verse/