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#TANKA TUESDAY Weekly #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 209, Last challenge of 2020

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.

Stream of Consciousness Saturday: Yes, a Trio of Haiku

This is part of LindaGHill‘s Stream of Consciousness Saturday. Linda said : Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “yes.” Use it as a word, use it in a word, extra points if you start and finish your post with it. Enjoy!

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A Trio of Acrostic Haiku using the word YES

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Yesterday is gone

Everyone just carries on

Steady as we go

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Yes she shouted loud

Everlasting love she vowed

So in love was she.

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Yes let’s dance away

Each step carries me further

Stop me, just say yes

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Halloween: A trio of Nonets.

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One upon a dark, cold Halloween

Monsters grew on the face of a

Most beautiful fairy Queen

At her eyes they clustered

Magic of black Faye

All souls mustered

The Fairy

Queen to

Save.

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She was kind and gentle, she was fair

Known for her red eyes and black hair

Dark,sad secrets she must keep

If you knew them you’d weep

She must never love

Due to a curse

From above

Vampire

She

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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 on All

Hallows

Day.

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LOVE IS IN DA BLOG: TUSCAN NONETS

Just Fooling around with Bee says: “It is Thursday which we celebrate and dedicate to places we love. It is entirely up to you how you create this post: write a story, poem, take a photo, link to a page… anything goes as long as it is connected to a place you love”

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OUR PLACE IN THE SUN, OUR FRIENDS HOME IN TUSCANY TWO NONETS.

Sunlight falls upon the cobbled street

Narrow alleys where people meet

Fields of golden Sunflowers

We drive through them for hours

Walled towns amazing views

Warm breeze no blues

A priest’s house

Loved friends

Tuscan

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San Gimigiano shimmers still

Shops and restaurants busy hours

From our haven we can see

Across the green valley.

Dear loving friends

Always there

For us

Tuscan

Five Photos Five Stories: Ivy : Nonet

Caressing and suckling close, tendrils

Draping over stone like spirals.

Green like Mother Earth she clings

Eternal winter sings.

Slowly choking out

All life. No doubt

She is keen

Leaves green

Ivy.

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Here are the rules for the “Five Photos Five Stories” challenge: “Post a photo each day for five consecutive days and attach a story to the photo. It can be fiction or non-fiction, a poem or a short paragraph and each day nominate another blogger for the challenge.”

I am going to try and use the theme of graveyards.

My second nomination goes to markbialczak

Thanks again to This thing called life. One step at time for nominating me for the challenge.

Not the A to Z April Challenge : Guardian Angels

A true Guardian Angel is he

Working hard to protect little me

All good things I gain from thee

Angel you have saved me

She is new who’s she

Her job to care

For the new

Life in

Being a wooze!

It is my own fault I did not have the nerve to sign up for the April A to Z Challenge ! But I could not let it go, one part of me said ( quite rationally ) you have enough to be coping with , don’t put yourself under pressure while the other part of me was screaming you wooze you lazybones you have to do it ! The latter part of me shouts louder and much more harshly than the sensible side!

So here I am Not doing the A to Z April Challenge! Everyday except Sunday I shall post a Nonet, yes I have decided to use the Nonet for my non entry’s! A Nonet is a nine line poem. The first line containing nine syllables, the next line has eight syllables, the next line has seven syllables. That continues until the last line (the ninth line) which has one syllable. Nonets can be written about any subject. Rhyming is optional.

I do apologize to those who have organized this event and those participating …. I reading those that I know of …. But I an a wooze. The louder braver part of me is urging me on and telling me that next year I must join up and brave up!!

So good luck to everyone involved and I hope you don’t mind we tagging along unofficially!