With Emphasis This Time - Tanka Thursday

Last week I began
A quest to write poetry
But one thing it lacked
Was substance and character
And a voice of discussion


So when writing now
I think of something to voice
And again I can't
But maybe that's much better
To just spew randomness out


Thoughts are misleading
But random sayings say lots
About character
And what the mind thinks about
When forced to put things in words


I'll now hear comments
About needing more saying
And less of: Just words
So for that I say: Forgive
It's hard to write daily posts


I know I brought that
Upon myself to fulfill
But try it, I will
And poetry may die out
Like the Mayans and Incas


Counting syllables
Well, that is the easy part
Its substance that's hard
To put words together while
Still sticking to those limits


So maybe this ends
The fine tradition it was
That my readers know
Better as: Tanka Thursday
Two weeks of it was enough


On that note, I end with a poem I found online, and you'll probably like it better with the picture found here:
Roses are red,
Bacon is also red,
Poems are hard,
Bacon.