WELCOME TO TANKA TUESDAY!
Are you ready for a #TankaTuesday theme prompt? Ken Gierke (Rivrvlogr) from last month’s challenge picked the theme:
TRANSITIONS.
From day unto night
Earthbound into sudden flight
The mind learns to dream .
#TANKATUESDAY Weekly #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 262, 2/22/22, #THEMEPROMPT
23 Feb 2022 14 Comments
in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, Colleen's Tuesday Tanka, memories Tags: Changes, growth, Transitions
Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 84: (LEARN) in the D rhyme line.
18 Nov 2021 10 Comments
in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, Décima, photos, Poems, Ronovanwrites Tags: Aging, growth, Life, love
When we are young we rush and race.
No time to watch the flowers grow
Or count raindrops as down they flow.
Everything was done at fast
pace
We had style and we had such grace.
Then as we age we slow right down .
Our efforts to catch time a frown
You’d think that over time we’d learn
But no we simply crash and burn
We try to fly but slowly drown.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 371 PULL and Push.
16 Aug 2021 11 Comments
in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, Poems, Ronovanwrites Tags: Gaia, growth, Nature, Roots
This is part of Ronovanwrite’s Weekly Haiku Challenge.
push all the limits
defy all of nature’s rules
pull up your roots
Colleen’s 2019 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 155 #SynonymsOnly or #Theme-Thanksgiving
26 Nov 2019 22 Comments
in Autumn, Colleen's Tuesday Tanka, History, Poems, Tuesday Tanka Tags: Family, growth, History, Thanksgiving
This week you have a choice. You can write about the #Theme of Thanksgiving (thankful, grateful, family, etc. whatever that word means to you)
OR
here are your two words for this week:
“End & Hurry”
Hopefully they travelled
Across the Atlantic Ocean
Praying for safe delivery
Pleased at first sight of land
Yearning for all they had left behind
Thankful to be safely delivered
Hopeful of a brave new world
Aching in soul and body
No one shirked their duties
Kindred spirits they worked together
Spring, Summer and Autumn brought their hardships
Giving thanks to their God
Indians watched them from afar
Vainly struggling in a hostile world
In fear they struggled but
Never giving up they reached harvest
God saw them through and they gave thanks.
So as I did an Acrostic poem which is not within our remit so here is a Tanka. A synonymous Tanka not using the words End and Hurry.
Thanksgiving Tanka
It comes to a close
The year gently closing down
Only to speed up
Thanksgiving with family
It all ends so happily.
This is part of Colleen’s Tuesday Tanka.
COLLEEN’S WEEKLY #TANKA TUESDAY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 89, “DRY & WET,” #SYNONYMSONLY
19 Jun 2018 17 Comments
in Poems Tags: #SynonymsOnly, “DRY & WET, Colleen's Weekly, growth, NO. 89, Poetry Challenge, Tanka Tuesday, weather
This is part of Colleen Chesebro’s of the Fairy Whisper Weekly Tanka Tuesday.
I need deep damp loam
Darkness, for now, is my home
Soon I will rise up
I will dance in the warm sun
After the rain, my growth done.
Rain soaked leaves drip water
No longer sunbaked or parched
The weather cycles
Just like melting icicles
In sun they evaporate.
Top picture is from Pixabay
Bottom photo is mine.
Wordless Wednesday : The Progress Of The Tomato Plants.
29 Apr 2015 11 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: growth, progress, tomato plants, Wordless Wednesday
Week One
Week two
week three
week four
This week
Special Cargo
10 Oct 2013 14 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: circles, gratitude, growth, joy, Life, love, pregnancy
Brightly you blossom and bloom now, as I once was blessed to bloom
The life I brought forth loves you and you carry his seed in your womb.
Joy of joy life goes on and on such are the wonderful circles of life.
As us before you met young. I loved you then I love you now his wife.
No better gift can a man give a woman than to maker her a lover
No better gift can one woman give another than to make her a grandmother.
Thank you , thank you I will be here for you to give help and support
Only to step in if asked to stand back even if it hurts, to advice only if sort.
My time has passed no more can I bare fruit but I am woman
I was once as girl as you were until now , this seed makes you woman
May you raise this gift and love the love it chooses and feel as I do
I pray you are given this gift one day, then you can look back and see my words were true,
THANK YOU .
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This is a personal poem, I do not want women anywhere thinking I am saying you have to have children to be whole. That is not the case a woman is a woman.
Gate Keepers :6
30 Jul 2013 4 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: defence, Fear, Gate Keepers, growth, Life
Sister, sister, stop , what use to run ? What use to hide
Halt sister, stand by me. We must not run let’s hold this gate with pride.
I shall support you if you support me we stand together
Like stone against all evil we will defend this earth forever.
Slowly the gate keepers watched as things began to grow
They held the gates against all evil that tried to enter and over throw.
First came the plants and the cells soon insects and fish crawled and swam
From the broth of life they slowly emerge, the humans rose to two feet and the rot began.
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