Autumn's dismal sky,
cloudy and leaden, darkens
the tea in my cup;
tea not, this morning, limpid;
even its steam---insipid.
Kyakuchuu
Author's Notes/Comments:
I know that rhyme is mostly avoided, or even forbidden, in Haiku and Tanka. I have respected those rules in most of my Tanka (I have no idea how many are in the Footnote series), so perhaps that may allow me to bend a rule here and there.