Tanka Tuesday...... Dodoitsu

• #1“dusk in the garden”
• #2: “fine weather bird songs”
• #3: “early summer clouds”

 

orange yellow nasturtiums
colour the warm afternoon
nature's picture perfect art
dusk in the garden 

the white cockatoos always
enjoy their afternoon tea
on granny's wide verandah
fine weather bird songs

looks like rain over the beach
la nina's at it again
can't resist flooding the spring
early summer clouds

 

The dodoitsu is a Japanese poetic form developed towards the end of the Edo Period, which came to an end in 1868. As with most Japanese forms, the dodoitsu does not have meter or rhyme constraints, focusing on syllables instead.”