Tag: tanka
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#Haikai Challenge #13 (12/23/17): Christmas #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
Welcome back, haijin! Pat yourselves on the back for the marvelous job you did last week! For those of you here for the first time, behold: 1. Charley (Life in Portofino) 2. Jules 3. Zander 4. ToniKanzen 5. Pat R 6. Merril D. Smith 7. qbit 8. Xenia Tran 9. Janice (Ontheland) 10. Jane Dougherty…
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#Tanka Tuesday #2: A #Tanka for Kiwinana’s Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge – Week 76 – Christmas & Joy
Kiwinana asks us to use Christmas and Joy in a tanka… Christmas Eve the joy in the children’s eyes as they unwrap gifts aroma of octopus lingering in the air
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#Tanka Tuesday #1: A #Tanka for Colleen’s #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge #63…cover and precipitation (#synonymsonly)
Colleen asks us to use synonyms of cover and precipitation for this week’s #poetry challenge… snowfall we throw off our comforter in sudden heat Oh, if only we could spend the day nestled in our bed!
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#Haikai Challenge #12 (12/17/17): Winter Solstice #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
(Illumination of Earth by Sun on the day of winter solstice on northern hemisphere. Image by Przemyslaw “Blueshade” Idzkiewicz.) Look who ran the gauntlet of last week’s Haikai Challenge: qbit– Haiku–Ever Falling Green Snow Jules Paige– Light; opaque obstructions Charley– Haiku: Snow on Evergreen Jilly– Perennial Petru– Tanka Xenia Trans– Haiku: First Snow ; Haibun:…
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#Tanka Tuesday 12/12/17…This Christmas Spirit…#haiku #poetry
“Silver Bells” unraveled music lesson from so long ago so many winters later a light shining in the dark for Colleen’s Weekly #Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge #62: Bells & Past and Kiwinana’s Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge – Week 75 – Shining & Winter
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#Haikai Challenge #11 (12/9/17): first snow OR ever green #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renku
Another successful challenge in the books! Congratulations to last week’s participating haijin: Jilly: Thirsting and SuperMoon! Charley: Haiku–Full Frost Moon Zander: Arid Haiku Linda: #Haiku: Sacred qbit: Haiku- Arid Petrujviljoen: Arid revivedwriter: Desert Ultreya! It’s snowing in southeast New York. We’re expected to get between three to eight inches, or one to three, depending on which gambler–er, meteorologist–you listen to. My…
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#Tanka Tuesday (12/5/17)…a feast of sight and sound for bare and ensnaring landscapes #haiku #poetry
rising super moon the bare maples my eyes see ensnared in shadows the hum of nighttime traffic reaches my long-chilled ears for kiwinana’s Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge – Week 74 – Eyes & Ears and Colleen’s Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 61 – “STARK & TRAP”
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#Haikai Challenge 10 (12/3/17): Arid…#haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka
Hello, haijin! And my hat’s off to you! For I haikai challenged, and you delivered! Last week, a record number of you answered the call: Jilly–Ain’t Gonna Happen–a Haiku Charley–Haiku: Migration Charmed Chaos–#Haiku: Rain revivedwriter–November Rain qbit–Haiku–November Rain Vivian Zems–November Rain Xenia Trans–Where Frogs Are Sleeping Zander–In The City Rick Daddario–2017 Haiga Header Sampling…
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