It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

–William Shakespeare

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

–Rabindranath Tagore

“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

–Josh Billings

Tanka is one of the oldest Japanese poetry forms. There are five lines in a Tanka poem. Tanks poems are written about nature, seasons, love, sadness and other strong emotions.

“Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.”

–Augustus Hare

Tanka is one of the oldest Japanese poetry forms. There are five lines in a Tanka poem. The basic structure of a Tanka poem is 5 – 7 – 5 – 7 – 7. In other words, there are 5 syllables in line 1, 7 syllables in line 2, 5 syllables in line 3, and 7 syllables in lines 4 and 5. Tanks poems are written about nature, seasons, love, sadness and other strong emotions.