Coffee grounds, egg shells,
tea bags, used paper napkins,
peels, skins, seeds, leaves, weeds.
Step into my green pail and
I’ll turn you into compost.

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Trash Tanka? Is that another name for a garbage truck?

Well, no!

You’re probably familiar with a haiku, which is a short poem consisting of three lines of five, seven and five syllables. A tanka is a short poem consisting of fives lines of five, seven, five, seven and seven syllables.

So a tanka could be described as a haiku with two extra lines. Kind of like turning a Civic into an Accord.

Haul it Away Haiku 1 can be turned into Trash Tanka 1 by adding two more lines:

If I throw you out,
will you sit in a landfill
for one hundred years,
the consequences of you
haunting me all of my life?

Fun, yes?

I hope you’ll comment and send in your own trash/recycling/composting-related haiku and tanka.

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If I throw you out,
will you sit in a landfill
for one hundred years?

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