Poetry Wednesdays

Your topic is: simplicity

Your form is: Tanka — five lines with or without syllable counting

1. short line / 5 syllables
2. long line / 7 syllables
3. short line / 5 syllables
4. long line / 7 syllables
5. long line / 7 syllables

Example:

Is the inlaid box
With a gilt hasp concealing
A letter, a jewel?
Within, a bunch of feathers,
The small bones of a bird.
~ Carolyn Kizer

Reference: Handbook of Poetic Forms