FRIENDLY GHOST NOTES
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ABOUT US
We create custom heartspun tanka poems for your loved ones, party guests, or honorees using your short prompt. We call them Friendly Ghost Notes!
Our ghost writers, or “heartspinners”, are creative & heartfelt. We care about every poetic experience delivered.
RESULT: deeply personal, cute, funny, inspirational poems… your heart wrapped up in our impeccable presentation.
All tanka poems are typewritten.
WHAT is A tanka?
The tanka is a thirty-one-syllable poem with a five-line, 5/7/5/7/7 syllable form.
A form of waka (Japanese song or verse), tanka means “short song”.
Tankas are perfect for courtship. And more epic than a sonnet.
“One of the oldest Japanese forms, tanka originated in the seventh century, and quickly became the preferred verse form not only in the Japanese Imperial Court, where nobles competed in tanka contests, but for women and men engaged in courtship. The tanka’s economy and suitability for emotional expression made it ideal for intimate communication; lovers would often, after an evening spent together (often clandestinely), dash off a tanka to give to the other the next morning as a gift of gratitude.”
FRIENDLY GHOST NOTE GIFT ideas
Out of gift ideas? Do they have everything? Custom tankas are personal, but take less than 5 minutes of your time! Forget the gift & card, we’ll handle both with our heart-stopping tankas.
Birthdays
Congratulations
Get-Well
Anniversaries
Mom/Dad’s Dad
Valentine’s Day
Tankas make stunning place settings that will spark conversation (and maybe a few tears) at every table of your event.
Tankas are economical and emotive… perfect for clandestine courtship. And they are more epic than a sonnet.
Let us worry about thank you notes… tell us what they got you, or a few words/facts about your guest, and we send out your notes.
Draw-your-own graphic tankas! We provide the Tanka and 5 accompanying blank panels for you to bring the Tanka to life in a 1-page graphic novel poem.
