Tanka , Like the Blues and Haiku blues

The older Japanese Tanka often were about loss and longing - like the blues

So here is a bluesy tanka

Lucille?
She was a teacher
teacher of the blues
she taught them to me
she'll teach them to you

Haiku blues

issa certainly wrote bluesy haiku so here are a few attempts on my part


poor old fly
just like me
crushed


preacher man
wasting my time
fly buzzing


vanity
at my age to watch
young women