Spring – willowdot21

24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry Challenge, No. 33, 5/7/24, Part I, The Beginning of Summer.

The 24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry challenge for #TankaTuesday focuses on the Beginning of Summer. It encourages poets to use kigo words or phrases related to the season in their syllabic poetry. Find inspiration in the seasonal changes and embrace the vibrancy of the month.

How does this time of year affect you where you live? Think about the seasonal changes. What descriptive words come to mind? If they work to define the season you’re in, add them to your kigo list.

This week I have settled on doing an Abhana (which is a 4-line stanzas with 6-6-6-4 syllables each. L2 and L3 rhyme. The end rhyme scheme is abbc) My Kigo words are, spring blooms, summer sun, silver moons , chanable weather..

Perfidious summer

Weather confounds me now
Everywhere pink spring blooms
Nights full of silver moons
Fluffy clouds drift.

Yesterday, high summer
Monday a wet Autumn
Today thick fog then sun
Who knows what’s next

Summer waits in the wings
I think she has stage nerves
The fields full of spring herbs
It’s all quick change

Ladies when you’re ready
Get your act together
We can’t wait forever
Make up your minds

Part of Colleen Chesebro’s Tuesday Tanka Challenge.

Wordless Wednesday.Pathways to Spring .

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part of Terri Webster Schrandt’s and Hughsviewdandnews Wordless Wednesday.

One – Liner Wednesday. April.

"April weather, rain and sunshine both together." -Unknown #trvst #quotes #changetheworld #gogreen #April

“April weather, rain and sunshine both together.”- Unknown

trvst

“April hailstones and black clouds followed by cold winds and blue skies!”

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Part of LindaGHill’s One-Liner Wednesday.

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.

Wordless Wednesday . Spring nails.

part of hughsviewsandnews Wordless Wednesday.

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.

24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry Challenge, No. 26.

24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry Challenge, No. 26, 3/19/24, Part I, The Spring Equinox (March 20 – April 3) Shunbun 春分

March 19, 2024

Colleen at Tanka Tuesday said “The 24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry challenge celebrates the spring equinox, a time of new beginnings and seasonal changes. Participants are invited to use specific seasonal words in their poetry. The challenge encompasses various forms of poetry and encourages creativity.”

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

I have chosen to write three tankas today. I have used the Kigo words, Spring Dawn, Squirrels, foraging, playing in the fields, Meadows, Mad march hares, March winds. The last Tanka I tried something different, I took some words from a song Sam wrote added my own words and changed them into a Kigo . I tried hard to match his metre.