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tankas

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plural of tanka

as in haiku

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Yamanaka is made for leisurely walks, a visit to the house celebrating the haiku poet Bashō—who stayed here for nine days in 1689—and quiet days in a world of green hills and rushing water.

— Pico Iyer, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Aug. 2026
In its final form, a CPN chapter was visually indistinguishable from a haiku, the white space between words packed tightly with meaning.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 July 2026

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The construction is the same -- three lines, 17 syllables, with five syllables in the first line, seven syllables in the second line and five syllables on the third line -- but the tone and subject matter of a senryu is different.

— Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 19 Nov. 2020
The event is open to anyone interested in learning about the modern haiku, senryu and haibun types of poetry, focusing on contemporary free verse forms, not the familiar five-seven-five-syllable structure.

— Carole Goldberg, courant.com, 7 Aug. 2019

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Staluppi has many odes to 007 from varying shipyards out there, all named for films featuring Ian Fleming’s iconic character.

— Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 26 Aug. 2026
Ayrshire doesn’t get the headlines or rapturous odes that the Highlands do, but this rugged coastal stretch in southwestern Scotland is filled with under-the-radar gems like Glenapp Castle.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Aug. 2026

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The touchstones are plentiful—Harmonia’s cyclical drift, Alice Coltrane’s stargazing elegies, gamelan’s hypnotic shimmer—but the song is strange and unpredictable.

— Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 13 July 2026
Last week, some of the brightest minds of my generation left us angry elegies and poetic travelogues.

— Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 6 July 2026

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People can and should be skeptical about the sonnets written about starting NFL quarterbacks every offseason, when no one is getting sacked and almost everyone looks good.

— Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 30 July 2026
In his sonnets, Shakespeare pairs was with glass, and warmed with disarmed.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 June 2026

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Psalm 23 is numbered Psalm 22 in the Greek Septuagint and Latin Vulgate because of differences in how the psalms are divided and numbered.

— Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 Aug. 2026
Because the psalms were originally accompanied by instruments, scholars’ best guess is that selah was some sort of musical marking.

— Drew Goins, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026

Definition of psalms

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