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Poetry | Episode Who Cares
Random Tanka
Are you up for the challenge?
I was reading the author's notes on Adrian’s poem (linked below) and literally thought the exact same things as he. I highlighted it in bold.
Adrian wrote:
This poem was the product of a late-night flash of inspiration that came to me after I read another article by John Hansen. {Also linked below}
In his article, John wanted to see if he could successfully combine three random and seemingly unconnected topics into a single poem.
One of his friends provided him with the three topics for his random word poem: precious metals, man’s best friend, and poets.
To be honest, as soon as I looked at these words, I was like, “Bloody hell, those are totally unrelated; it’s gonna be so hard!”
Yet all it took was just one sentence to act as a foundation, and the rest of the poem went smoothly as I built around it. That’s how it is sometimes.
I copied and pasted the three topics into a new story and thought, “How would that work into a haiku?” (Haiku is kind of my new thing.) Here is my resulting haiku in the tanka format of 5–7–5 7–7.
no precious metal,
gold, silver, or platinum
is as valuable
