Welcome to the 24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry challenge for #TankaTuesday!
Our host and mentor says :”This post welcomes participants to the 24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry challenge for #TankaTuesday, celebrates the community’s support, and discusses the transition into the season of Grain Rain. It also encourages creative expression using seasonal kigo words.
🌾🌧️ About Grain Rain 🌾🌧️
As we enter the last two weeks of April, the Pentads come into play again. They are much smaller bites of time, only five days each!
🪻Can you believe it? We will begin the season of summer on MAY 5th!! 🪻
How does this time of year affect you where you live? Think about the seasonal changes. What descriptive words come to mind? If they work to define the season you’re in, add them to your kigo list.
I have chosen to write an Abhanga. Which should be written in any number of 4-line stanzas with 6-6-6-4 syllables each. L2 and L3 rhyme. The end rhyme scheme is abbc. It is customary to title your poem. My Kigo words are , April showers, April Moons, flooding, rainbows, seedlings in the earth, blossom and Wisteria.
April showers, April Moons.
Everywhere is flooding
The fields are all awash
April moons steal my sleep
Dancing splash splosh .
Wisteria flowers
My favourite colours
In the earth seedlings start
To be flowers
A gentle time of days
My thoughts are rainbow led
Cold winds rip through branches
Blossoms, all fled.
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