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#TankaTuesday Weekly Poetry Challenge No. 292, 10/4/22: #Tastetherainbow-Color Poetry

04 Oct 2022 16 Comments

by willowdot21 in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, Autumn, Colleen's Tuesday Tanka, memories, Poems Tags: Chill, colour, seasons

Colleen said: “Hello everyone. Happy October! My favorite month is finally here!! This week, choose your own syllabic form and a color to feature in your syllabic poem. Think about the different ways you can use color in a poem.”.

Well I love October too it’s my second most favourite month and Autumn is my favourite season. I have chosen to do an Autumn Tanka.

I smell grey Autumn.
My eyes see russet and gold
Pure white feathers fall
Mournful honk as geese depart.
Cold rustling in the north wind

THIS IS PART OF COLLEEN’S TUESDAY TANKA

Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 430 HOCUS and Pocus.

03 Oct 2022 18 Comments

by willowdot21 in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, Autumn, Poems, Ronovanwrites Tags: Hocus Pocus, magic, Nature, seasons

Hocus Pocus

Leaves morph green to gold
And suddenly the leaves fall
Scritch, scratch can be heard
Hocus pocus magic spell
Russet Autumn is magic

This is part of Ronovanwrite’s Weekly Haiku Challenge.

Ronovan Writes Sijo Wednesday Poetry Challenge #29. Use AUTUMN as your inspiration this week.

28 Sep 2022 9 Comments

by willowdot21 in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, Autumn, inspiration, memories, Poems, Ronovanwrites, Sijo Tags: Autumn, colours, Custom

AUTUMN

Mum always said that when the Autumn winds blow, we need our vests, sun or no.
These days in winds keen I realise what she did mean.
Laves swirl and dance as chill days advance. So I wrap up warm.

Part of Ronovanwrite’s Weekly Sijo Challenge.

#TankaTuesday Weekly Poetry Challenge No. 288: #Tastetherainbow-Colour Poetry

06 Sep 2022 25 Comments

by willowdot21 in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, Colleen's Tuesday Tanka, colouring, love, Poems Tags: colours, Nature, weddings

Its Tuesday again and time for Colleen’s Tuesday Tanka Challenge. Colleen says “Hello everyone. Happy September! This week, choose your own syllabic form and a color to feature in your syllabic poem. Think about the different ways you can use color in a poem.”

I have chosen a Tanka today. As I am going to a wedding later this week I have used it loosely as my subject. My colours are red and white.

The bride flows in white
Red-blooded groom full of lust
Hearts beating with pride
All part of Nature’s big plan
Yes it’s all procreation

Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 426 DEEP and Woe.

06 Sep 2022 10 Comments

by willowdot21 in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, Poems, rant, Ronovanwrites Tags: deep, HAIKU, Japanese poetry, Nature, Woe

Deep woe.

Feelings run so deep
As our resources run out
Mother Nature’s woe.

THIS IS PART OF RONOVANWRITE’S WEEKLY HAIKU CHALLENGE.

The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS Sept. 3, 2022

03 Sep 2022 32 Comments

by willowdot21 in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, Music, Poems, rant, sadness, SoCs Tags: Fear, LindaGHill, sadness, why

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “start with why.” Begin your post with the word “why.” Have fun!

I went deep into my darkside for this one.

Why

Why am I so angry why am I so low
You’re driving me to distraction, why? I do not know.
Always putting everyone else first, but not me.
Always pardoning others for reasons I can’t see.
If I try to tell you to let them take their turns
You round on me and give that look that burns.
I’m sick of being wrong, having to zip my mouth.
Why not put me first, why?

THIS IS PART OF LINDAGHILL’S SoCs

Ronovan Writes Sijo Wednesday Poetry Challenge #25. Use INSPIRATION as your inspiration this week.

02 Sep 2022 11 Comments

by willowdot21 in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, inspiration, photos, Poems, Ronovanwrites, Sijo Tags: inspiration, Japanese poetry

Inspiration

Mostly it slips through your fingers like grains of sand.
Hold it up to the light and there will be nothing there, just shadows.
Then just like sunrise it will blind you, fill you with hope as it shows you the way.

42 words
47 syllables

This is part of Ronovanwrite’s Weekly Sijo Challenge.

#TankaTuesday Weekly #Poetry Challenge No. 287, 8/30/22, #ShareYourDay

30 Aug 2022 46 Comments

by willowdot21 in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, Colleen's Tuesday Tanka, colouring, photos, Poems Tags: choices, Clothes, Share your Day, wedding

WELCOME TO #TANKATUESDAY!

It’s the fifth Tuesday of the month! #ShareYourDay is a way to get to know each other better. Take a photo and write a syllabic poem about your day. Don’t think on it too hard. Make it fun. The photo does not need to be a selfie. If you don’t have access to a camera, find an image on Pixabay.com (please add the credits) that best describes your .

I am going to the wedding of my niece next week and I have spent most of today sorting out what to wear…. I have used two photos, I hope that is okay.

I chose to write a The Butterfly Cinquain is an unrhymed, nine-line syllabic poem with 2-4-6-8-2-8-6-4-2 syllables per line.

Planning
What shall I wear
Green or lilac , choices.
Both have hints of Mother Gaia
Which one
Which to choose I am not quite sure
Spring or Autumn colour
Finally I
Decide

THIS IS PART OF COLLEEN’S TUESDAY TANKA.

Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 425 REED and Turtle.

29 Aug 2022 6 Comments

by willowdot21 in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, photos, Poems, Ronovanwrites Tags: Japanese poetry, Nature, Reeds, Turtles

Hidden in his shell
In the rivers greenery
Amphibian dreams

THIS IS PART OF RONOVANWRITE’S WEEKLY HAIKU CHALLENGE.

The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS Aug. 27, 2022

27 Aug 2022 19 Comments

by willowdot21 in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, humour, inspiration, memories, Poems, SoCs Tags: Board, Bored, imagination, LindaGHill

Hi Saturday again and time for LindaGHill’s Stream of Consciousness Saturday this week Linda’s email said: Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “board/bored.” Use one, or use them both for bonus points. Enjoy!.

Are you bored? the billboard said
There’s time for that when you’re dead?
Nothing to do? The billboard asked
Get up and find yourself a task
Grab a board and catch a wave or snow slope
Fly a plane, climb on board, don’t give up hope.
Be a pirate make someone walk the plank
Hit the high board, or plan a prank.
Make a space station out of cardboard.
Dig for treasures, follow the map to find the hoad.
No get a life, get on board have some fun don’t be bored!