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Ice Cold
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deep cold
artic weather
settles over the land
freezing ponds, pipes, and bones
resigned
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schools close
people shelter
stoking fireplace and heater
a losing battle for home warmth
defeat
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bundle
layers of clothes
slow the arctic windchill
slipping on icy roads and walks
severe
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serene
beautiful views
fresh white pristine landscapes
homes, ponds, and streets covered in…
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#Shadorma: Pray
Grant my heart
Tranquil peace oh Lord!
That I may
Be amazed
As I tremble with healing
Light, blessed by your hands.
©2019 Linda Lee Lyberg
Linda Lee Lyberg is a wife, mother, artist, published poet and author. She resides in Mesa, AZ with her husband Pete (aka The Big Viking) of 23 years, and her dog, Ricky Bobby. Linda writes various forms of poetry, as well as short…
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Colleen's 2020 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 188, #ThemePrompt
Colleen’s 2020 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 188, #ThemePrompt
WELCOME TO TANKA TUESDAY!
It’s the fourth week of July! Are you ready for a theme prompt? Sue Vincent selected the theme this week with a quote prompt:
“Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth.” Herman Hesse
On the Monday before the next challenge, I’ll select someone to choose next month’s theme.
For Colleen’s…
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Colleen’s Weekly #Poetry Challenge # 28 – LAUGH & CRY
Colleen’s Weekly #Poetry Challenge # 28 – LAUGH & CRY
Happy POETRY Tuesday everyone!
How’s your creativity? Are you ready to get groovy with your poetry? Then, you’re in the right place! Pull up a chair, and let’s write some poetry.
It’s week 3 of our new poetry challenge. You can write your poem in one of the three forms defined below:
HAIKU in English
TANKA
HAIBUN
You can do one poem or try to do one of each. It’s up to you – YOUR CHOICE. You…
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Brief - COLLEEN’S WEEKLY NO. 101, “PLAN & FINISH"
Brief – COLLEEN’S WEEKLY NO. 101, “PLAN & FINISH”
Here’s my Senryu for this week’s challenge!
Intended it wasn’t,
But, a very brief encounter,
merged all of our goals.
– Love Tamo
in response to Colleen’s weekly tanka Tuesday: “Plan & Finish“
for my previous Senryu, click here.
for my previous Haiku, click here.
for my previous post, click here.
photo credit: Pixabay
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Colleen's Weekly Tanka Poetry Challenge 6/24/2020: The Soldier and Story Traci Kenworth
Colleen’s Weekly Tanka Poetry Challenge 6/24/2020: The Soldier and Story Traci Kenworth
“…Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time…”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Soldier
a man
broken, battered
wins valor on the field
he gives all, defends all gladly
hero
Adam struggled to raise his head. He didn’t know how long it’d been since the bomb dropped. The other men beside him lay or toppled…
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Smorgasbord Poetry - #CrownCinquain - Life's Progression by Sally Cronin - Colleen's Weekly Tanka Challenge
Smorgasbord Poetry – #CrownCinquain – Life’s Progression by Sally Cronin – Colleen’s Weekly Tanka Challenge
This week it is poet’s choice for Colleen Chesebro’s #Tanka Tuesday Challenge 228
I have crafted a Crown Cinquain which I hope you will enjoy..
Life’s Progression
First breath
in the new world
air filling tiny lungs
instinctive cry for attention
bonding.
Small hands
find surfaces
to steady the progress
of the exploration of life
moving.
Hormones
surge and confuse
caught up in the vortex
between…
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#Colleen&039;s Weekly Tanka Challenge 228#Smorgasbord Poetry - CrownCinquain - Life&039;s Progression by Sally Cronin
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Smorgasbord Poetry - #CrownCinquain - Life's Progression by Sally Cronin - Colleen's Weekly Tanka Challenge
Smorgasbord Poetry – #CrownCinquain – Life’s Progression by Sally Cronin – Colleen’s Weekly Tanka Challenge
This week it is poet’s choice for Colleen Chesebro’s #Tanka Tuesday Challenge 228
I have crafted a Crown Cinquain which I hope you will enjoy..
Life’s Progression
First breath
in the new world
air filling tiny lungs
instinctive cry for attention
bonding.
Small hands
find surfaces
to steady the progress
of the exploration of life
moving.
Hormones
surge and confuse
caught up in the vortex
between…
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#Colleen&039;s Weekly Tanka Challenge 228#Smorgasbord Poetry - CrownCinquain - Life&039;s Progression by Sally Cronin
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Early Cold Nights
Delightful puffy clouds at sunset.
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early cold light
perched by the fireplace
time to refresh and reflect
embers of lost dreams
rekindled on heartbeats
welcome the new year
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This is my entry for Colleen’s latest season’s syllabic poetry challenge. Your mission, should you decide to accept, is to write a seasonal poem using kigo words and phrases that speak to the early cold phase of…
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Winter Desolation Poetry Challenge #12
This is a reversed image of the moon reflected off a frozen pond.
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sleet-covered ground forms an icy blanket
bring winter desolation
stark fields of frozen dreams
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a feeble attempt to stave off sadness
buying a new calendar
loneliness fills my heart
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singing and dancing a mix of feelings
mellow vibes fill the room while
trimming the Christmas tree
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A frozen puzzle.
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Seven Flowers of Autumn
Radiant rose.
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Here is my second entry for Colleen’s latest poetry challenge to write a seasonally (autumn) themed poem with kigo words. Despite the autumn theme and title, I choose to celebrate flowers from summer when they were in their peak glory. I’m missing the flowers already and we haven’t even had fall weather yet! Maybe when fall finally arrives, I’ll find more to celebrate about…
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#autumn#blues#Colleen&039;s weekly poetry challenge#fading beauty#kigo#kouta#Seven Flowers of Autumn
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White Dew
glistening dew on spiderweb
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mornings of glistening dew
cooler days, lengthening nights
fields glowing with goldenrod
autumn’s last hurrah
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Fields of golden flowers in autumn!
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the flowers wither
blossoms wilted and falling
autumn’s curtain call
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Turning leaves and wilting flowers signal autumn’s arrival.
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Colleen’s latest poetry challenge highlights the White Dew season of…
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#Haiku: Autumn Leaves
scorching desert sun-
yearning for whispering leaves
scent of autumn rain
©2020 Linda Lee Lyberg
Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Challenge: #326 Scorch and Shade
Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge #198: Poets Choice
Linda Lee Lyberg is a wife, mother, artist, published poet and author. She resides in Mesa, AZ with her husband Pete (aka The Big Viking) of 24 years, and her dog, Ricky Bobby.…
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#Haibun: Rebirth These past few months I have been living in a dazed confusion. Between the Covid 19 virus and insane politics, I have been wandering through a murky forest.
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#Haiku: Gift
Image credit: Unsplash, and the photographer is Wolfgang Hasselmann
on lush forest floor
sprouting from a green moss bed-
gift from autumn rains
©2020 Linda Lee Lyberg
Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge No. 195 #EKPHRASTIC #PHOTOPROMPT
Linda Lee Lyberg is a wife, mother, artist, published poet and author. She resides in Mesa, AZ with her husband Pete (aka The Big Viking) of 23 years, and…
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Whisper of Autumn
“Autumn…the year’s last, loveliest smile.”
Indian Summer]”
― John Howard Bryant
Cool whisper
of autumn in dawn’s
morning breeze
despite the
brazen sun’s warmth on my face
refreshing relief
©2020 Linda Lee Lyberg
Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge #194 Synonyms only Hint & Bold
Linda Lee Lyberg is a wife, mother, artist, published poet and author. She resides in Mesa, AZ with her husband…
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