[stylist] Thank you for your comments. and iinstructions for thetankabun ...

Fri May 4 02:36:00 UTC 2012

I don't think we've ever kept count, Jackie... I have  used it extensively 
and I know are using it now. I'll have to check with him to  see if he can 
help me document it. Thank you for the info!
I'd love to see and also the criteria.  I  actually wrote a sonnet today.  
It's one of the variations on a French  sonnet which I love because the 
volta is located before the last quatrain making  it part of the ending sestet.
Myrna

In a message dated 5/3/2012 9:26:14 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
jackieleepoet at cox.net writes:

Myrna,
I wonder if you and your partner are aware, that once a  new form is
published 100 times, it is recognized as a legitimate new  poetry form. Have
you hit that number yet?
I have worked with a form  called a Granite Reef Sonnet. Though it was
popular in my poetry class,  noone used it extensively, and to my knowledge,
none has been ppublished  under that term. If you are interested, I will 
send
you one of  mine.
Jackie 

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Thank you Shawn, Robert, and  Jackie.  This is a  very special memory for 
me 
and to be able to  share in a poetic way is a true  joy.
First of all, thank you Jackie  for the great article  on writing Tanka.  I 
would recommend it  to anyone who may have never  written a tanka or just 
needs a  refresher.  Very informative and it will  help if you want to try 
a  
hand at this form  It is a very simple form once  you get that  tanka out of
the 
way.

Now for the instructions:   

The tankabun is a form that combines the structured  syllable  oriented 
tanka and a piece of prose which my co-developer and I  called  the 'bun'.
It is 
very similar to the haibun in structure  but there are  distinct 
differences.

The tankabun begins with one  tanka.  As you read  and research tanka you 
will see many  references to the tanka capturing a moment  and that is the 
basis for  the prose piece.
Your tanka can be about nature, seasons, life,   emotions, observations. 
With the evolution of modern poetry, even the  syllable  count of your tanka
can 
be different than traditional  tanka.  Traditional  tanka are five lined 
poems syllabic in  form---5/7/5/7/7 or 31 syllables.  I  have seen tanka  
done

with line lengths a bit different than tradional but still   using only 31 
syllables.   I have used modern tanka myself when  doing  these and both do
work 
well with the form as a whole. The  prose piece, or  the bun, which follows 
will then allow you to  describe this moment in a more  personal way. How 
did

it make you  feel? What did you think as you experienced  it? How will you  
remember it?  Did it make you look at something in a  different  way?  The 
prose is strictly your own thoughts on the events  which  inspired the tanka
so 
you can take where YOU want it to  go.  The  restriction, which differs 
from 
the haibun, is that  you can ONLY use one tanka  and it must precede the 
prose.  I  will send another tankabun later as an  example of what you can  
do
with 
the prose piece.  Titles are usually short  and most  often will consist of 
one word either found in the tanka or the   prose.  So we have a short 
title,

a tanka, and piece of  prose.  That  is a tankabun.  It really is very easy 
and  for those of you who enjoy both  form and freedom (as I call it) this  
is

a perfect blending of both.  If you  have any more  questions, please just 
ask.  I would love to see what you all   could do with this as I know it 
will

be  stellar.

Myrna

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