27 Jul 2021 14 Comments
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It’s the fourth week of the month! Are you ready for a theme prompt? Donna Matthews from D J Ranch.org last month’s challenge picked the theme:
I chose to write a Tanka and I used a photo of my grandchildren, taken by my daughter in law.
during life’s journey
many a slip halts our quest
as we travel forth.
the road we take is unknown
an Expedition.
20 Jul 2021 15 Comments
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It’s the third week of the month! Time for an Ekphrastic #PhotoPrompt
This challenge explores Ekphrastic writing inspired by visual art (photographs). Annette Rochelle Aben from last month’s challenge has provided the photo for this month’s challenge. Remember, it’s not so much about describing what’s in the photo. Look beyond the obvious to find new meaning.
such hidden treasure
kept secure under the waves
my deepest secrets.
This time I have chosen a simple longer Haiku, I am trying to express the depths of my feelings.
13 Jul 2021 22 Comments
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Our prompt from Colleen is ; Green & Morass.
canopy verdant
Sinking in to the damp earth
flower farmed by ant.
lush soft shades
of complications
it’s total madness
A 5/7/5 Haiku and a 3/5/3 Haiku for Colleen Chesebro’s Tuesday Tanka.
06 Jul 2021 33 Comments
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For this challenge, you can write your poem in any syllabic form you’d like to try.
old am I
my dreams let me fly
know no bounds.
For Colleen’s Tuesday Tanka Challenge I have chosen to do a short haiku. 3/5/3.
22 Jun 2021 17 Comments
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It’s the fourth week of the month! Are you ready for a theme prompt? Jules from last month’s challenge picked the theme.
This is part of Colleen’s Tuesday Tanka Challenge.
“Discovery”
eyes shut to learning
too afraid to lift the stone
Share discovery.
15 Jun 2021 26 Comments
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It’s the third week of the month! Time for an Ekphrastic #PhotoPrompt
This challenge explores Ekphrastic writing inspired by visual art (photographs). Kerfe Roig provided a piece of her art for this month’s challenge.
I have chosen to try a Cromorna. New to me but I think it’s form fits the picture.
Cromorna is a verse form that has compact lines and exacting meter and rhyme developed by Viola Berg.The Cromorna is:
stanzaic, written in 3 quatrains.
syllabic, with 5/3/5/3/5/3/5/3/5/3/5/3 syllables per line.
rhymed, rhyme scheme abab cbcb dbdb.
Image Credit: Kerfe Roig.
Quest.
a search without cease
paper bird
ceaseless hunt for peace
dove unheard
traced in my mind’s map.
paper bird
the answer, a trap
dreams occured
infinite and spacial
it’s life’s spice
all celestial
tossed like dice.
01 Jun 2021 64 Comments
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WELCOME TO TANKA TUESDAY!
Happy JUNE! It’s the first of the month and you know what that means! Word Crafters, choose your own syllabic poetry form, theme, words, images, etc. It’s up to you! This opportunity only happens once a month!
I really just wanted to tell a tale. So I really am not sure if this poem is even allowed. I told it all the same.
Light and dusk
Golden light fractals through the leaves.
Dark brown, of strong Oak woven in the trees.
Motes of dust dancing in and out,
squirrels collecting nuts, in a hurry here about!
As she lays there among the leaves,
not missed yet, so far no one grieves.
Dearest Teddy by her side
She only dropped him when she died.
She is tiny, she is small,
Oh! dear God she has hardly lived at all.
Like an angel lying there
with tiny insects running through her hair.
Shafts of dying daylight frame her face,
of her killer there is no trace.
Silent leaves begin to fall
slowly slowly they cover all……………
04 May 2021 24 Comments
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It’s the first of the month and you know what that means! Word Crafters, choose your own syllabic poetry form, theme, words, images, etc. It’s up to you! This opportunity only happens once a month!
Follow the schedule listed below:
I have chosen a Gogyohka this week. I have written two verses about the Lilly of the Valley and how it reminds me of my father.
Lilly of the Valley.
Spring’s harbinger
Memory stirs
Such scent
Fills my kitchen
And my soul.
Father would toil
Hands in soil
You his pride and joy
Green and white
My joy now.
🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋
Finally News of Colleen’s big dream journal.
The countdown is on to May 15, 2021, when the Word Weaving Poetry Journal reveals the theme for this first edition journal. Mark your calendars! Submissions open May 15th through July 15th. Learn more HERE!
27 Apr 2021 48 Comments
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It’s the fourth week of the month! Are you ready for a theme prompt? Kat from last month’s challenge picked the theme:
“Pick a Flower” and using one of the syllabic forms we use, tell us why it is special to you.“
My mother was a gentle woman, loving and kind, her favourite flowers were Anemone, I have written a Nonet about her and her flowers because I miss her.
Always small yet colourful
Never over assuming
Elf like colour pools
Mother loved these flowers
Open bright and blooming
Nothing pleased her as these
Enchanting little Anemones.
21 Apr 2021 18 Comments
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It’s the third week of the month! Time for an Ekphrastic #PhotoPrompt
This challenge explores Ekphrastic writing inspired by visual art and/or photographs. Anita Dawes from last month’s challenge has provided the photo for this month’s challenge:
Here are the forms we can use. Haiku, Senryu, Haiga, Gogyohka, Tanka, TankaProse, Renga, Solo-Renga, micropoetry, poetry, 5lines, Haibun, Prose, CinquainPoetry, Etheree, Nonet, Shadorma, Badger Hexastich, Abhanga, Diatelle.
I decided to try a Sedoka, but with a twist, so I wrote it without a rhyme to emphasize the dystopian dream feel. Call it poetic license.
Hues
Golden
My dreaming
Colours my life
Visions of the future.
A plethora of lost, dark days.
There’s no warmth in that burning golden hue.
Our happy home abandoned your old tram rotting.
I reach out hoping for reassurance.
But I am alone you are gone.
Fear grips and I awake
I am with you
My mood lifts
Soft light
Hues
If we were having coffee , every Sunday
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