Japanese poetry forms

Haiku

Raindrops tint the soil
randomly beneath the oak
where light fails to reach.


Tanka

Graceful spiders dance
white-hot webs across the sky.
Their electric strands
precede the gathering storm,
a jagged strobe-light warning.


Cinquain

Sneaking
late frosts spread death
Sparkling crystal tombs keep
diamond encrusted blooms ever
silent.

©T.Lynn Smith 2009