Our Gracious host Colleen Chesebro said WELCOME TO TANKA TUESDAY!
This week, Jude chose the words for us to select our synonyms:
I chose a haiku this time.
Search & Lost.
The quest has been hard
He had tried to do his best
The truth was not found
#Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 221 #SynonymsOnly
13 Apr 2021 37 Comments
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#TANKA TUESDAY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 209, #POET’SCHOICE
19 Jan 2021 21 Comments
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Hooray, Colleen and her Tuesday Tanka Challenge is back from her short break. Colleen has been on the move and I for one wish her every happiness in her new home. Colleen said “Since it’s the first poetry challenge of the new year, Word Crafters, choose your own syllabic poetry form, theme, words, images, etc. It’s up to you!”
I have chosen to write an Acrostic Poem on the theme of Cancer. A subject that is giving me grief at the moment. Please don’t worry, as far as I know, I DO NOT HAVE CANCER sadly I have friends that do.
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Cancer Acrostic
Cunning, creeping, conniving
Ailing , sickening no longer thriving
Nearing the end of your tether
Coping, worse and worse than ever
Eroding you slowly from the inside
Ruin it, kill it, crush it, poison it until it dies!
#TANKA TUESDAY Weekly #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 209, Last challenge of 2020
29 Dec 2020 17 Comments
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Good morning and welcome to Colleen’s Tuesday Tanka Challenge. Colleen said : “For the LAST poetry challenge of 2020, I want you to write a poem about hope, using your favorite poetry form (it doesn’t have to be syllabic). Please make these poems inspirational to others.
No negativity and No politics! We’ve all had enough politics to last us another lifetime.
After you’ve written your poem, tell us why the specific form you chose is your favorite. Why does that form resonate with you? If it’s a new form, teach us how to write that specific form.
I’ll stop by and comment throughout the week as time allows. There will be NO recap post on Monday, January 4, 2021. Make sure and visit the other participant’s post through Mr. Linky or from the ping-backs on the challenge post.
Tanka Tuesday will resume on January 18, 2021.”
New Year New Hope
Harvengers of hope and light arrives
Open the doors for their entry
Praise the welcome gifts with joy
Enter the new year now
Full of confidence
Undo all ills
Let ties of
Love bind
You.
Today I have chosen my two favourite forms of poetry, the Nonet and the Acrostic Poem . This is an Acrostic Nonet. I love the way these two disaplines concentrate the mind. When put them together I feel I have achieved a small triumph.
Be blessed and safe everyone happy New Year.
COLLEEN’S 2020 WEEKLY #TANKA TUESDAY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 189, #POET’SCHOICE
05 Aug 2020 34 Comments
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It’s the first of the month and you know what that means! Poets, choose your own syllabic poetry form, theme, words, images, etc. It’s up to you!
So the news intervened in my choice today. The explosion in Lebanon’s capital Beirut yesterday prompted me to write the chain of Haiku below. As if the Lebanon has not got enough issues. As of writing this it’s not known if this incident was an horrific accident or act of war/ terror. I am praying for the dead and injured, numbered in the thousands.
I am combining Colleen’s Tuesday Tanka Challenge with Ronovanwrite’s invitation to try out his own new form of Haiku which he has named Shi Rensa Haiku. Here is his explanation.
Beirut
Kindness in measure
Helps us to flourish and grow
Please extend a hand
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Please extend a hand
To those stricken by evil
In a far off land
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In a far off land
Lives stolen and ripped apart
Look deep have a heart.
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Look deep have a heart
We need to find new kindness
There is not enough.
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Colleen’s 2020 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 188, #ThemePrompt
28 Jul 2020 41 Comments
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WELCOME TO Colleen Chesebro’s TANKA TUESDAY!
It’s the fourth week of July! Are you ready for a theme prompt? Sue Vincent selected the theme this week with a quote prompt: I have written a double Etheree this week.
“Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth.” Herman Hesse
The wisdom of Ents.
You
Told me
Your secrets
Reached out, touched me
Spoke inside my head
Showed me life eons past
All the changes you have seen
The sum of your knowledge is vast.
You’re not tied by religion or cast.
Un-dispoiled by rank or fortune you stand.
Your knowledge once tapped can not be unseen.
You picked me from the group, gently spoke.
I heard you and carry your words.
To this day I still hear you
Still see what you showed me.
The vision is true
Sheltered by you.
Life giving
You are
Ent.
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Colleen’s 2020 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 179, #ThemePrompt
26 May 2020 21 Comments
in Colleen's Tuesday Tanka, Depression, feeling unwell, inspiration, Music, Poems, QUOTES Tags: Colleen Chesebro, Gogyohka, Saving light
WELCOME TO TANKA TUESDAY!
It’s the fourth week of the month! Are you ready for a theme prompt? Merril D. Smith from last month’s challenge selected a special theme:
So this month’s theme is:
“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”
― William Shakespeare,
Maybe I should of written a sonnet but it was a Gogyohka that really spoke to me. I wrote this one about the world situation but it could apply to any situation really. The title is Caring Light.
So deep the depths of despair
Separated by nescesity we show care
No touch, isolation bites deep
Yet the light of love we keep
Flickering warming it’s healing we keep.
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Colleen’s 2020 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 178 #PhotoPrompt
19 May 2020 31 Comments
in Colleen's Tuesday Tanka, Depression, feeling unwell, photo prompt, Poems Tags: Colleen Chesebro, Fear, Shadorma
It’s the third week of the month! Time for a #PhotoPrompt
Vashti Q. Vega, from last month’s challenge, has provided the photo for this month’s challenge:
This week I have decided to do a Shadorma for Colleen’s Tuesday Tanka.
Watching me
Slowly draining life
Eating up
My soul whole
Evil stalks my nights and days
I can not escape.
Colleen’s 2020 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 173 #SynonymsOnly
14 Apr 2020 19 Comments
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WELCOME TO TANKA TUESDAY!
Colleen picked the two synonyms for this week’s challenge. Remember, there are many ways to use these words. Don’t be afraid of creativity!
Idea and Fancy
Inspiration comes
Sprinkled with Ribbons and bows
Imagination
💜💜💜💜💜
For Colleen’s Weekly Tuesday Tanka I decided to do a Haiku.
Colleen’s 2020 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 172, #Poet’sChoice
09 Apr 2020 15 Comments
in Colleen's Tuesday Tanka, inspiration Tags: Colleen Chesebro, Nature, Poetry prompt
WELCOME TO TANKA TUESDAY! It’s the first of the month and you know what that means! Poets, choose your own syllabic poetry form, theme, words, images, etc. It’s up to you! Are you looking for inspiration for your syllabic poetry?
The earth keeps turning
Gia changes her seasons
Untouched by man’s time
She needs no rhyme or reason
She is patient with us all.
This week for Colleen’s Tuesday Tanka I chose to do a Tanka about Mother Nature and her timeless progress, despite our best efforts to ruin her.
2020 Conversations with Colleen ~ Featuring Author, M. J. Mallon @Marjorie_Mallon
20 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in Blog Tour, Blog Tours Tags: Colleen Chesebro, In conversation, Marjorie Mallon, Mr Sagittarius
Marjorie Mallon is in conversation with Colleen Chesebro, let’s head over and join them 💜
Hello everyone! I’m thrilled to be part of an amazing writing community that helps to support other authors. We all succeed when we work together as a team. Today, please welcome poet and author, M. J. (Marjorie, aka Marje) Mallon and her newest creation, “Mr. Sagittarius, Poetry & Prose.” Marje is a regular participant in…
Source: 2020 Conversations with Colleen ~ Featuring Author, M. J. Mallon @Marjorie_Mallon
