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MissouriOrangePeotry

As our name suggests this wiki begins from the Great and semi-sovereign State of Missouri located in the United States of America. Please keep this in mind. We will approach poetry from a decidedly rural Midwestern American perspective. Do not be surprised that our view of Haiku and Tanka is much broader than more traditional poetry guides. Our intent here is to begin with coarse motor skills and gradually move on to fine motor skills.

Now for the truly curious, what could possibly be orange about Missouri? Not much! The orange reference comes from a tree known in these parts as the hedge apple and/or the Osage Orange. Now on to our first two poetry types: Haiku and Tanka.

Both of these poetry types require counting syllables within each of the poem's lines. When the example poems were first completed counting syllables was done by counting fingers and scribbling with pencil and paper. There is now an easier way.

The following link has both word and syllable counters. Please note that the wordcalc.com site also contains advertisements.

[|http://www.wordcalc.com]
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