Experimenting with Tanka

Today I'm writing about tanka for my Examiner.com column. So I thought I'd write a sample tanka because I can't seem to find the one I wrote when I was doing a report on poetry in the 5th grade. Here is what I came up with:

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I pick up her bowl

and recall her furry smile

gone but remembered

I place the bowl in the box

that I donate tomorrow

~ * ~

Endings can be strange

Sometimes they fracture your heart

Other times they mend it

And sometimes they transform you

Into something wholly new
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