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#TankaTuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 256, Colleen’s Specific Form: haiku

11 Jan 2022 37 Comments

by willowdot21 in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, Colleen's Tuesday Tanka, Music, Poems Tags: cold, memories, Nature, Winter

WELCOME TO #TANKATUESDAY!

This week’s form is: Haiku.

I have decided to write three Haiku, using the three forms I know, 5/7/5, 3/5/3 and 3/2/3.

I suffer from Raynaud’s disease it was undiganosed as a child so winter is full of cold memories. I also took the music of Tori Amos as an inspiration.

I missed last week’s due to my eyes but it’s not going away over night so I am pushing forward in to this new year happy to be in such great company.

in early winter
the earth stands frozen in time
hibernation’s key.

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Memories
Of winter that’s past
Dreaming time

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Winter
Solid earth
Waiting.

part of Colleen’s Tuesday Tanka Challenge.

Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 392 BEND(ing/s) and Heart.

11 Jan 2022 6 Comments

by willowdot21 in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, inspiration, Poems, Ronovanwrites Tags: Bends, heart, Nature, Resilience

the old tree creeks in
high wind, it’s heart stout and strong.
the grass bends gently.

A Haiku about Nature’s plan for Ronovanwrite’s Weekly Haiku Challenge.

Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 90 (ART) in the B rhyme line.

31 Dec 2021 7 Comments

Nature paints a picture daily
Rainbow of colours blown apart
Thrown upon the alter of art
Sping blossom bounces in gayly
Her pastel colours sway palely
Summer sails in all green and blue
Autumn’s russet and golden too.
Winter comes with a frozen lakes
Silver frosts and dainty snowflakes.
Our landscape refreshes daily.

THIS IS PART OF RONOVANWRITE’S WEEKLY DÉCIMA CHALLENGE.

The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS Dec. 11, 2021

11 Dec 2021 36 Comments

by willowdot21 in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, inspiration, love, memories, Music, photos, Poems, SoCs Tags: knowledge, Life, LindaGHill, Nature, trees

It Saturday and time for Stream of Consciousness Saturday .Linda G. Hill our host said : Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “tree.” Use the word “tree” or write about a tree. Any kind of tree. Enjoy!

TREES

I love nature and I have always loved trees. I often find myself drawn to them and can spend hours in their company.

Bend with the wind, go with the flow

So wise, with knowledge we will never know.

Bare in the winter

Silent in snow

Covered in blossom in spring

Birds nest in your branches and sing

Summer brings green leaves

And you give us shade

Autumn’s hues are a sight to behold

Silent a history of secrets you hold.

Trees know so much, they see so much. We use them to build, for warmth, for furniture. We give little back. We, humans as a race are users. Vast forests and jungles are cleared in the name of progress.

Hopefully with the splinters and ashes and discarded furniture the trees go back into mother Earth so new ones may grow.

Trees and vegetation were here before us, they will be here when we are gone.

Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 387 COLOUR(ed/s) and Three.

06 Dec 2021 16 Comments

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

seasonal colours
the winter shades are threefold
chilling heads and toes.

THIS IS PART OF RONOVANWRITE’S WEEKLY HAIKU CHALLENGE

Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 82: (TIME) in the B rhyme line.

03 Nov 2021 24 Comments

by willowdot21 in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, Décima, Music, Ronovanwrites Tags: Clock ticking, Extinction, Nature, rape of the earth

The Clock is Ticking

Painfully the earth is dying
The clock’s ticking we’re out of time.
Killing mother earth is a crime.
We’ve bled her dry now she’s crying.
Save Gaia now, please start trying.
We have plundered her precious fruits
And stripped her down to her roots.
She spins so fast on her axis
As we work to avoid taxes
We’ve flattened her under our boots.

This is part of Ronovanwrite’s Weekly Décima Challenge.

#TANKATUESDAY Weekly #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 248, #PHOTOPROMPT

20 Oct 2021 19 Comments

WELCOME NoTO COLLEEN CHESEBRO’S TANKA TUESDAY!

Sangeetha, from MindFills selected the photo for this week. It’s her personal photo, so please add the image credit. Remember, we can see what’s in the image, so write your poem using the image as an inspiration.

Don’t just describe what you see in the image. Think about metaphor and allegory. Don’t forget to use imagery in your poem. Just remember to check what form you’re using. Some of the Japanese forms frown upon the use of metaphors.

*Tilini – The Himalaya, 2021 photo credit – sangeetha*

I am the wild flow
you are the stay and anchor
we are stuff of life.

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This is part of Colleen’s Tuesday Tanka

Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 380 EVER & Green.

18 Oct 2021 15 Comments

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

I have written a Tanka this week.

This lush verdant land
Nature’s treasures for us all
Is this eternal
Have we pushed nature too far
Will the green go for ever.

THIS IS PART OF RONOVANWRITE’S WEEKLY HAIKU CHALLENGE.

Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 79: (VERVE) in the C rhyme line.

14 Oct 2021 7 Comments

by willowdot21 in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, Décima, humour, love, Music, Poems, Ronovanwrites Tags: Gaia, Nature, Party Bugs

Enthusiasm and delight
Mixes with Gaia’s perfect plan
The insects are a happy gang .
Some just crawl others take to flight.
Joy da vivre keeps them up all night.
This party is full of such verve
The bugs are on an upward curve.
Butterflies, spiders, ladybugs
All bouncing mad as if on drug.
Phychedelic bugs, high on lovre.

This is part of Ronovanwrite’s Weekly Décima Challenge.