24 Seasons Poetry Challenge No. 29, Part II, Clear and Bright (April 4 – 18) Seimei 清明24
This is the second week of the Clear & Bright Season. Every two weeks, we will move into another season in the 24 Japanese Seasons HERE.
This week: Your writing invitation from Colleen Chesebro’s Tuesday Tanka is to choose one of the 24 Forms for your poem. You can use the kigo words and phrases from the Part I challenge post HERE, or you can use the phrases Colleen has created below:
Below are three kigo phrases for the Northern Hemisphere. Use one kigo phrase in each of your three poems in whatever order you’d like.
Northern Hemisphere:
- #1: “first cherry blossoms”
- #2: “fiddlehead ferns”
- #3: “twittering of birds”
I have used the three phrases and added a fourth Bishop’s Crozier our local name for the Fiddlehead Ferns.
Dressed in white and pink
The first cherry blossoms dance
Feel the world awake
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Bishop’s crozier
Green and curly nourishing
Gaia’s little joke
Fiddlehead ferns
Playing sweetly on the tongue
Delicate, crunchy
Reluctant dawn breaks
The twittering of birds bursts
Banishes the dark.
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