Instead of the normal Tanka this one has 21 syllables, divided over five lines. It ends with a question in the fifth stanza.
It is built up this way:
xxxx
xxxxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxx
An example:
old green haired man
guarding the area
birds making nests
in your branches
do you care?
The Dutch Tanka can be a "stand alone" poem, or written in a chain. When written in a chain, you have to make sure that the question in the previous stanza is answered in the first line of the next stanza.
An example of a Dutch Tanka Chain:
old green haired man
guarding the area
birds making nests
in your branches
do you care?
yes, I do care
treasuring life in me
I’m their shelter
I nurture them.
what’s your point?
I’m so ashamed
that I have bothered you
you’re important
to the birds, please
forgive me?
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