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Colleen’s Tuesday Tanka. Kigo No.29.

Good morning and welcome to Colleen’s Tuesday Tanka Challenge. For this week’s prompt Colleen suggests: “This week, a new Ekphrastic prompt is introduced, inspired by Japanese Season of Clear and Bright. Choose a painting for inspiration and create a poem with kigo words.” Colleen then goes on to tell us her news: “I have two anniversaries this week! First, it’s been 10 years since I first started blogging on WordPress! WOO HOO!! And, I’m still here. LOL! 😂🥳 Next, our 39th wedding anniversary is today! 🥳 🥂 🍾.

To celebrate, let’s do something different, since we’re in the third week of the Japanese Season of Clear and Bright…How about an Ekphrastic prompt?”

For the Northern Hemisphere:

For the Southern Hemisphere:

Congratulions Colleen on your Wedding anniversary I hope you and hubby have a wonderful day! Also congratulations on your 10th Blogiversary! 🎉🎉🎊🎊🥂🍾🌈💜💜

I have done a double Etheree and my Kigo words are Spring Mornings, Dappled light and shade,Spring flowers, chill winds, April Rain,April showers.

From Facebook: Artist – Kaoru Yamaha

Spring
Mornings
Oftentimes
Dreaming of warmth
Dappled light and shade
I have the colours, true
Spring flowers and skies of blue
Yet chill winds reach through to my bones
Daydreams of Tuscany will abound
Within sun and heavy April showers
Tease my brain, chill my heart and thermostat .
I long to walk bare armed yet still warm
Flipflopping along toes singing
Every inch of me alive
History ouzing out
Of walls and pavements
Ghosts of seasons
Past. Washed by
April
Rain

24 Seasons Poetry Challenge No. 29, Part II, Clear and Bright (April 4 – 18)

24 Seasons Poetry Challenge No. 29, Part II, Clear and Bright (April 4 – 18) Seimei 清明24

low angle view of pink flowers against blue sky

This is the second week of the Clear & Bright Season. Every two weeks, we will move into another season in the 24 Japanese Seasons HERE.

This week: Your writing invitation from Colleen Chesebro’s Tuesday Tanka is to choose one of the 24 Forms for your poem. You can use the kigo words and phrases from the Part I challenge post HERE, or you can use the phrases Colleen has created below:

Below are three kigo phrases for the Northern Hemisphere. Use one kigo phrase in each of your three poems in whatever order you’d like.

Northern Hemisphere:

#1: “first cherry blossoms”
#2: “fiddlehead ferns”
#3: “twittering of birds”

I have used the three phrases and added a fourth Bishop’s Crozier our local name for the Fiddlehead Ferns.

Dressed in white and pink
The first cherry blossoms dance
Feel the world awake

Bishop’s crozier
Green and curly nourishing
Gaia’s little joke

image from Wikipedia

Fiddlehead ferns
Playing sweetly on the tongue
Delicate, crunchy

Reluctant dawn breaks
The twittering of birds bursts
Banishes the dark.

24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry Challenge, No. 27,Spring Equinox.

depth of field photography of tulip flowers

The 24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry challenge for #TankaTuesday welcomed writers to create poetry using kigo phrases for different hemispheres. Participants were invited to select a form and incorporate specific kigo words into their poems.

Below are three kigo phrases for the Northern. Use one kigo phrase in each of your three poems in whatever order you’d like.

🌱 Northern Hemisphere:

#1: “tranquil dawn” (nodoka, all spring)
#2: “hazy moon” (oborozuki, all spring)
#3: “birds enter clouds” (tori kumo ni iru, mid spring)

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Waking the first bird
Rips apart the tranquil dawn
Gaia has risen

As sleep evades me
I watch the hazy moon light
Gently comforting

The birds enter clouds
Heavy dark and menacing
Like my soul captured.

THIS IS PART OF COLLEEN’S TUESDAY TANKA CHALLENGE.

Tuesday Tanka . March .

Welcome to the 24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry challenge for #TankaTuesday!

This is the first week of the Japanese Season: Wintering Insects Awake (March 5 – 19) Keichitsu 啓蟄

First Pentad, March 5 – 10
Second Pentad, March 11 – 15
Third Pentad, March 15 – 20.

I have written a mirror Etheree that can be read both ways from top to bottom and bottom to top. My Kigo words and phrases are March, Harsh Winds, Rainbows, Green Shoots, hard ground , Season Turns, Hope.

**painting by Franz Marc, killed at Verdun in 1916.**

March
Rushing
Headlong knocks
Me into touch
It’s harsh wind assails
Not only the washing
Also dancing in the trees
Icy fingers pulling life.
The earth and I hope for a reprieve
Gaia awakes birthing hope and rainbows.
Slowly awakening, the urge to push
Green shoots endeavour to break hard ground
Soon the colours will cheer us all
Hope comes carried on strong winds
Brightly coloured she flies
As the season turns
She brings succour
I grab it
Share it
March

PART OF COLLEEN’S TUESDAY TANKA.

24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry Challenge, No. 12, 12/12/23, Part II: Heavy Snow

24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry Challenge, No. 12, 12/12/23, Part II: Heavy Snow (December 7 – 20) Taisetsu 大雪24

This week Colleen says :”Your writing invitation is to compose a series of three kimo, which is optional… or pick your own form and use the kigo words and phrases from the Part I challenge post HERE.

Below you will find three kigo phrases that pertain to the northern hemisphere and the southern hemisphere (5 syllables each). Use one kigo phrase in each of your three poems.”

#1:“buying a new calender” (7 syllables)
#2:“winter desolation” (6 syllables)
#3:“trimming the Christmas tree” (6 syllables).

HERE ARE MY KIMO.

Town was crowded but I was determined
to buy a new calendar
my future now assured

In the doorway wrapped in a damp blanket
I give you my hot coffee
winters desolation

Warm, cosy memories in every box
tatty trinkets made with love
trimming the Christmas tree.

This is part of Colleen Chesebro’s Tuesday Tanka Challenge.

24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry Challenge, No. 9, 11/21/23, Light Snow (November 22 – December 6)

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Light snow Shosetsu 小雪 & Fine Weather: Shoman 小満 Southern Hemisphere

The 24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry challenge, #TankaTuesday, invites participation using a kigo word or phrase in a syllabic poem. Focusing on the seasonal themes, “Light Snow” in Northern Hemisphere and “Fine Weather” in Southern Hemisphere, the challenge encourages reflection on how the current season influences individuals.

I have chosen three Tankas that help express how this time of year makes me feel. .. I have used these Kigo words. Twilight of the year, gratitude, winter coats, making amends, taking stock of the year.

Early winter snow ❄️❄️ Tanka

She has worked so hard
sporting red and white berries
creatures foraging
she’s taking stock of the year
earth wearing her winter coat

So cold the wind blows
I put on my winter coat
grateful for it’s warmth
protection against winter.
The skies laden with first snow

The earth turns swiftly
as does my life, memories
haunting my conscience
twilight of the year or life?
nature and I make amends

24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry Challenge, No. 6, 10/31/23:

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This is the second week of First Frost/Grain Rain.

Image from here

I live in the Northern hemisphere so we are in Autumn. My Kigo words are, “Autumn Mists and leaves” also “Day of the Dead” and “Trick or Treat” and finally “lonely” I chose to write a lonely Tanka, a spooky Etheree and a cheeky Nonet.

I am so lonely
autumn mists are my carriage
I drift lost, unseen
will this day of the dead end
will the world turn on

Colleen our host for Tuesday Tanka also said:

“👻 It’s Halloween week! Bonus Points if you write a second poem on the same post using the phrase: “TRICK OR TREAT.” 👻”

What lies beneath this canopy of leaves.
Watching as the children skip on by
Dressed as little sprites and ghosts they
Giggling, unaware of what
Heeds their passing noises
Don’t disturb evil
You never know
If it will
Trick or
Treat

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Trick or treat the children love to play
As dark falls on all hallows day
Knock on doors and run away
Ghosts and ghouls ask for sweets
What tricks will they play
On you today
This dark Day
Of The
Dead

Image found here

Tuesday Tanka Challenge : August.

Welcome to TankaTuesday Weekly

Colleen our host and mentor said : “This week’s challenge is a taste of what our new challenge will be like starting September 26th, when we start our 8th year of Tanka Tuesday. We will explore the 24 Seasons of the Japanese Year and apply it to where we live. My goal is to create our own Saijiki (Kigo word list based off of our own locations). The 24 Seasons and the kigo word lists will be the inspiration for our poetry.We’ll work with 24 syllabic forms (some new and old forms). This year, I’ll continue to leave the option to write freestyle poetry as long as you include one syllabic form.I’ll share more when we get closer to the end of September. How exciting!”

I decided to write a quartet of Haiku trying to use more of our trigger words. I have tried to catch the feelings of an ageing August using time, weather, crops nature and finally myself as subjects.