#Butterfly #Cinquain – #ThemePrompt
#Butterfly #Cinquain – #ThemePrompt
Lightning Burstingout of a cloud, it creates a channel – tall trees nod and send sparks of lovea beam puts up a spectacular show sky suddenly lights…#Butterfly #Cinquain – #ThemePrompt
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#TankaTuesday Weekly #Poetry #ThemePrompt Challenge No. 286, 8/23/22, #LessonsFrom Nature
#TankaTuesday Weekly #Poetry #ThemePrompt Challenge No. 286, 8/23/22, #LessonsFrom Nature
It’s been a while, but I thought I would take part in the syllabic poetry challenge, Colleen hosts every week! Sorry I have been gone so long, again, Sis!
Lessons from nature
Use the theme above to write your choice of syllabic poem. Your poem must include or be about a lesson from nature.
Colleen Chesebro
Today’s poem is inspired by this photo I took, last week
We should persevere
Mother…
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#TANKATUESDAY Weekly #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 275, 5/24/22, #THEMEPROMPT
#TANKATUESDAY Weekly #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 275, 5/24/22, #THEMEPROMPT
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Smorgasbord Poetry – Colleen Chesebro’s Tuesday Weekly Challenge - #Themeprompt - #TankaProse - Useful by Sally Cronin
Smorgasbord Poetry – Colleen Chesebro’s Tuesday Weekly Challenge – #Themeprompt – #TankaProse – Useful by Sally Cronin
This week Colleen Chesebro’s weekly challenge is a Theme Prompt ‘Useful’ suggested by Kerfe I have created a Tanka Prose using the prompt.
Tanka Prose – Useful
Her aim in life was to be useful. As a child she would do her chores expecting no reward except a smile. As a teenager she cleaned her room without asking and expected no acknowledgement except a smile. As an adult she always tried to be…
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Smorgasbord Poetry – Colleen Chesebro’s Tuesday Weekly Challenge - #Themeprompt - #TankaProse - Useful by Sally Cronin
Smorgasbord Poetry – Colleen Chesebro’s Tuesday Weekly Challenge – #Themeprompt – #TankaProse – Useful by Sally Cronin
This week Colleen Chesebro’s weekly challenge is a Theme Prompt ‘Useful’ suggested by Kerfe I have created a Tanka Prose using the prompt.
Tanka Prose – Useful
Her aim in life was to be useful. As a child she would do her chores expecting no reward except a smile. As a teenager she cleaned her room without asking and expected no acknowledgement except a smile. As an adult she always tried to be…
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Winds of Love
Winds of Love #TankaTuesday
Once, the soft whisperbroke my wingsblew me awayextinguished my flameleft behind pearly teardrops.
Now, it hits even harder buttakes me highfuels my desiresenkindles the flaresleaving behind fierce feelings.
Once, suffocating squallstarnished my pellucid skyin the dark depths of deserted nighthurting the bleeding orb witha tourniquet of cotton balls.
But now, they roll out exquisite cloud…
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COLLEEN'S 2020 WEEKLY #TANKA TUESDAY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 192, #THEMEPROMPT
COLLEEN’S 2020 WEEKLY #TANKA TUESDAY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 192, #THEMEPROMPT
WELCOME TO TANKA TUESDAY!
It’s the fourth week of the month! Are you ready for a theme prompt? Kerfe Roig from last month’s challenge picked the theme…
This month’s theme is: Maps
On the Monday before the next challenge, I’ll select someone to choose next month’s theme.
For Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge, you can write your poem in the forms defined on the Poetry Challenge…
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2020 WEEKLY #TANKA TUESDAY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 204, #THEMEPROMPT
2020 WEEKLY #TANKA TUESDAY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 204, #THEMEPROMPT
WELCOME TO TANKA TUESDAY!
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This month’s theme is a haiku written by Sue Vincent:
clouds cover the moon,
beyond dawn’s pale horizon
sun rises unseen.
©2020 Sue Vincent
Please use the above haiku to inspire your own syllabic poetry. There’s a lot to unpack in these words. What will…
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Tanka Tuesday - Night Sky #Haiku #Tanka
Tanka Tuesday – Night Sky #Haiku #Tanka
COLLEEN’S 2020 WEEKLY #TANKA TUESDAY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 196, #THEMEPROMPT
My father introduced me to the constellations as a child. We would first look for the milky way and then start finding the summer constellations. Of all my siblings I was the only one really interested. Even with meteor showers, one by one my sisters would slip into the house until I was alone with the heavens,…
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#Tanka Tuesday Weekly #Poetry Challenge No. 217, #ThemePrompt - Immortality
#Tanka Tuesday Weekly #Poetry Challenge No. 217, #ThemePrompt – Immortality
Colleen’s Syllabic Poetry Prompt. It’s a theme prompt this week:
“Immortality”
Forever with us
Always in our hearts and thoughts
Never forgotten
Death may take people from us
Memories are immortal
Ritu 2021
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#TANKATUESDAY WEEKLY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 236, #THEMEPROMPT
#TANKATUESDAY WEEKLY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 236, #THEMEPROMPT
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Smorgasbord Poetry – Colleen Chesebro’s Tuesday Weekly Challenge - #Choka - Origins by Sally Cronin
Smorgasbord Poetry – Colleen Chesebro’s Tuesday Weekly Challenge – #Choka – Origins by Sally Cronin
This week for Colleen Chesebro’s Poetry Challenge it is a themeprompt provided by Yvette Calleiro Beginnings and Endings
My husband and I decided to take advantage of the recently emerged DNA ancestry projects and in 2001 we both had our mitochondrial DNA tested. If you want an insight into the process before having your own DNA tested then I suggest you read Dr. Bryan Sykes book The Seven…
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Smorgasbord Poetry – Colleen Chesebro’s Tuesday Weekly Challenge - #Choka - Origins by Sally Cronin
Smorgasbord Poetry – Colleen Chesebro’s Tuesday Weekly Challenge – #Choka – Origins by Sally Cronin
This week for Colleen Chesebro’s Poetry Challenge it is a themeprompt provided by Yvette Calleiro Beginnings and Endings
My husband and I decided to take advantage of the recently emerged DNA ancestry projects and in 2001 we both had our mitochondrial DNA tested. If you want an insight into the process before having your own DNA tested then I suggest you read Dr. Bryan Sykes book The Seven…
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Desire to Discover
we become artistsremembering we forgetartistic life bitsdrills desire to discoverlively elements of art
This tanka is written with a pivot element, meaning the first three lines can be read together, and so are the last three.
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Inspired by Colleen’s ‘Tanka Tuesday #231’.
Featured Image: Photo by Nadine Shaabana on Unsplash.
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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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