03 Aug 2021 14 Comments
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This week’s challenge from Colleen’s#TANKA TUESDAY WEEKLY POETRY CHALLENGE: #POET’S CHOICE . Is a true poet’s choice! Use any poetry form that you’d like including free-style or prose poetry. If your form is something new, teach us how to write it. Have fun!
Here is mine 💜
25 May 2021 68 Comments
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Go where this month’s prompt leads you
It Tuesday and time for Colleen’s Tuesday Tanka Challenge. It’s the fourth week of the month! Are you ready for a theme prompt? Colleen didn’t hear from Padre whose turn it was to select the theme… so, Colleen has picked the theme prompt for us.
I was seventeen when we married, 19years when the first boy arrived and 30years when the third and last boy appeared. Well now they had all grown and flown. It is now our time. So we renewed our passports and set off on our travels. The pandemic put a stop to that but we are on life’s journey, we are travelling together.
Following life’s road
We have traversed fifty years.
We’ve grown together.
Boy and girl, man and woman.
Three generations of love.
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.
13 Apr 2021 37 Comments
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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.
The quest has been hard
He had tried to do his best
The truth was not found
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!
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.
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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28 Jul 2020 41 Comments
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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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26 May 2020 21 Comments
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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:
“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.
*****
19 May 2020 31 Comments
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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.
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