.#TankaTuesday Weekly #Poetry Challenge No. 307, 2/14/2023

14 Feb 2023 51 Comments

by willowdot21 in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, Colleen's Tuesday Tanka, inspiration Tags: change, grow, Japanese poetry, Synonyms

WELCOME TO #TANKATUESDAY! 短歌火曜日

This week’s challenge from Colleen Chesebro for her Weekly Tuesday Tanka Challenge is Synonyms Only. That means you have to select synonyms for the two words below. You can’t use the two words… instead, you must choose two synonyms for the words Colleen has given us and use them in your poem.

Here’s your two words:

Change & Grow.

I have chosen to write a Tanka using Altered and Flourish.

Altered images
if seen by true open minds
help lives to flourish.

Ronovan Writes Sijo Wednesday Poetry Challenge #8. Use REBIRTH OR CHANGE as your inspiration this week.

04 May 2022 5 Comments

by willowdot21 in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, Poems, Ronovanwrites, Sijo Tags: change, rebirth, Syllables, Synonyms

This week I have used synonyms for the prompt words.

She reinvented herself, blooming like a tree in spring.
As a butterfly she re emerged, all colours of the rainbow
So different no one recognised her, full of nature’s new life.

31 words
46 syllables.

THIS IS PART OF RONOVANWRITE’S WEEKLY SIJO CHALLENGE

Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 407 DESERT and Path.

25 Apr 2022 14 Comments

by willowdot21 in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, Poems, Ronovanwrites, sadness Tags: Desert, Path, Synonyms

Today Ron has given us the two word prompt of Desert and Path. I have used synonyms as in, Road, Arid, Desolate and Empty.

The road is winding
My heart, arid, desolate
Like this empty world

THIS IS PART OF RONOVANWRITE’S WEEKLY HAIKU

Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 397 CROWN and GRIT.

14 Feb 2022 8 Comments

Today for Ronovanwrite’s Weekly Haiku Challenge, I have chosen to do a Tanka and use synonyms for Crown (wreath, and brow) and Grit (true determination) .

A triumphant wreath
Set upon a young one’s brow
After a fight won
By true determination
The future finally safe.

Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 376 DANDY and Lion.

21 Sep 2021 7 Comments

by willowdot21 in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, colouring, humour, inspiration, photos, Poems, Ronovanwrites Tags: Dandelion, Dandy, Lion, Synonyms

so fashionable
golden and green this year’s hues.
roaring his presence.

THIS IS PART OF RONOVANWRITE’S WEEKLY HAIKU CHALLENGE.

#TANKATUESDAY WEEKLY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 243, #SYNONYMSONLY

14 Sep 2021 17 Comments

by willowdot21 in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, humour, inspiration, love, Poems Tags: Family, peace, Syllabic poetry, Synonyms

WELCOME TO TANKA TUESDAY

Are you ready to choose some syllables to use in your syllabic poetry this week? Ruth, from RuthKlein’s Scribbles, selected your two words:

I chose to write an ETHEREE this week, my synonyms for Family are Clans and relations, and for peace, Tranquility and war free.

Family & Peace.(Synonyms)

We
Bluster
And bemoan
The shortcomings
Of extended clans
While calming the waters
Others raise fires with their fans.
Will things come to a bloody pass?
Or tranquility encompass us?
And so relations we will be, war free.

THIS IS PART OF COLLEEN’S TANKA TUESDAY.

COLLEEN’S 2020 WEEKLY #TANKA TUESDAY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 199 #EKPHRASTIC #PHOTOPROMPT OR #SYNONYMSONLY

20 Oct 2020 31 Comments

Our Hostess with thmostest Colleen said :”You can choose the Ekphrastic #PhotoPrompt provided by Trent McDonald, or you can choose the #SynonymsOnly challenge using the words “MOVE & MAKE” provided by David Ellis.

OR… You can do both! It’s up to you#

This week I have decided to write a Etheree using Trent MacDonald’s photo and David Ellis‘s words. I used glide, skimming and sailing for move and create and manufacture for make.

I
Glide through
Life, serene
Swanlike skimming
Not a ripple seen
Sailing through like a dream
Nothing betrays the madness
Created by my feet beneath
Autumn colours also manufacturer
A gentle serenity to fool all.

This is part of Colleen’s Tuesday Tanka Challenge.