Mike Hammer's entry for the  Small Worlds  contest in Ohio Poetry Day 2024     44779 Street   House. Show. Tonight. A grand piano in a tiny living room. Eye Vree Tickla is on tour. I am the one humming along.           i was recognized as an Honorable Mention for this poem i do not usually do form poetry but this contest was sponsored by my friend, writer Rhonda Baughman so i chose to enter to support her   the contest guidelines were to enter  a 5 line poem that is in the tanka or limerick or cinqain form i chose the tanka form, and wrote a modified tanka, which is a traditional 5 line Japanese poem, a 'short song'   according to poets.org   the  tanka is a thirty-one-syllable poem, traditionally written in a single  unbroken line. A form of  waka , Japanese song or verse, tanka translates as “short song,” and is ...