
Welcome to Colleen’s Tuesday Tanka. This week Colleen said : “Create Your Own Syllabic Poetry Form & Teach Us How to Write the Form”
I thought about this and finally settled on a poem of two stanzas . Each stanza is of seven lines, each line is made up of seven syllables. The lines in the stanza do not rhyme but the lines in the first stanza do rhyme with corresponding line in the second stanza eg. First line stanza one rhymes with line one stanza two, second line stanza one rhymes with second line stanza two and so on . I have called my poem a Septex. This poem is about all the refugees all over the world past and present.

Refugees .
Gently falls the silent snow
Covering all the traces
Of the plight of the faceless
Hidden, easy to forget.
The refugee’s plight is plain
Unseen crushed under the boot
Of those who started this strife
Ceaseless they’ve no where to go.
Fear written on their faces
Children to their sides are pressed
Some bring their beloveded pets.
They look for rest, all in vein.
The bombs fall and soldiers loot
The remains of their once life.
Mar 08, 2022 @ 13:04:12
Touching lines telling the tale of times
Mar 08, 2022 @ 15:30:39
It’s a bad, sad world ππΊπ¦π¬π§
Mar 08, 2022 @ 15:32:38
It is so full of man made sadness and pain
Mar 08, 2022 @ 15:33:38
Yes and not much hope in sight π
Mar 08, 2022 @ 13:19:44
A beautiful poem Willow! ππ
Mar 08, 2022 @ 12:36:43
Thank you Carol Anne π
Mar 08, 2022 @ 13:55:25
Wonderful, Willow, and an important and timely message ππ
Mar 08, 2022 @ 15:32:59
Thank you harmony, I seem to be writing a lot of timely messages of lateπΊπ¦π¬π§
Mar 08, 2022 @ 15:06:21
Wonderful, Sis! π
Mar 08, 2022 @ 15:20:58
Thank you Sis my brain hurts now ππ
Mar 09, 2022 @ 04:19:10
Wonderfully stated and such a sad reality .
Mar 09, 2022 @ 06:48:31
This is such a stark truth the refugee is a constant reminder of how little has improved over the years.π
Mar 09, 2022 @ 07:05:34
True
Mar 09, 2022 @ 07:30:26
I was just listening to the news and it’s no better. Our government is dragging its feet about how many refugees we let in at the moment it’s a trickle but everyone here here is pressing the home office to relax the paper work and let more in π
Mar 09, 2022 @ 15:28:53
This is great, Willow! I love the format you created, and your poem is wonderful. π
Mar 09, 2022 @ 18:17:17
Thank you it was quite hard but I am pleased with it. I am grateful you read and enjoyed π
Mar 10, 2022 @ 10:00:16
Itβs so hard for us watching from a distance. Cannot but feel stifling distress for the people going through this. Make it stop. Lovely poem. Thanks, Willow.
Mar 10, 2022 @ 10:31:54
All we can do is pray and urge our leaders to do more to stop the evil bully Putin . Also we must not forget all the other refugees all over the world from other wars….when will we learn ππ
Mar 10, 2022 @ 10:11:25
I wish I’d still had words, like you π€
Mar 10, 2022 @ 10:33:17
I am sure you do my dear Bee just let them out πππ
Mar 10, 2022 @ 15:37:37
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Mar 10, 2022 @ 12:25:24
Heartbreaking. (K)
Mar 10, 2022 @ 12:43:28
It is isn’t it π
Mar 10, 2022 @ 15:11:33
This is excellent Willow: Your Septex is listed as: two seven-line stanzas of syllables: 7-7-7-7-7-7-7, The lines in the stanza do not rhyme, but the lines in the first stanzaΒ rhyme with the corresponding line in the second stanza e.g. The first-line stanza one rhymes with line one on stanza two, the second-line stanza one rhymes with second-line stanza two, and so on. So each line has an end rhyme? I’m working on instructions for the forms, so please clarify if I misunderstand. The end rhyme would be abcdefg, abcdefg???
Mar 10, 2022 @ 15:20:13
Yes I believe you have that correct Colleen, the lines of a stanza have no rhyme until the next stanza where the corresponding lined rhyme. So yes first Stanza abcdefg second Stanza abcdefg. Hope that clarifies things π
Mar 10, 2022 @ 15:45:03
Perfect and well done, Willow. I’m creating a page with all our amazing new forms. β€
Mar 10, 2022 @ 15:46:07
Thank you for pushing us to create new forms Colleen π
Mar 10, 2022 @ 19:13:41
Wasn’t this fun? I like it because it makes our brains work harder which keeps us younger. LOL! β€
Mar 10, 2022 @ 19:22:12
Yes indeed healthy brains for poetry πππ
Mar 14, 2022 @ 19:29:49
Willow, this is so piercing – especially given the ongoing tragedy that we’ve all been following of late.
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David
Mar 14, 2022 @ 19:36:02
Thank you David, that is what I wrote about, the Ukraine. The way I look at it though it could be any war couldn’t it? There are so many and it always the innocent who suffer π
Mar 14, 2022 @ 19:38:19
Yes. π¦