Tag: tanka
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#Tanka Tuesday 11/7/17…of Autumn leaves and Starlit Nights…
Credit: ESA/Hubble; NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration windblown bracts the gaze of fall starlight on high tide what better lullaby than wind on water? For Colleen’s Weekly #Poetry Tuesday Challenge: November 7th prompt: synonyms of Autumn and leaves Jane Dougherty’s a Month with Yeats: Day 7: “These lines are…
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A #Tanka for A Monh with Yeats: Day 5
siren song fleeting pity in her eyes as our hull breaks a blood sunset on the sea that swallow us all For Jane Dougherty’s A Month with Yeats: Day Five UPDATE: for Poets United Poetry Pantry #378
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#Haikai Challenge #6 (11/4/17): Saints and Souls #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka
Here’s to last week’s participating poets, for their contributions to #haikai challenge #5 (10/28/17)–Halloween: Jilly–Trick or… Charley–Troiku–Night Fire revivedwriter–Halloween qbit–All Hallow’s Eve Onward, now, to this week’s challenge: It’s November fourth. November 1st and 2nd collectively have been called the Catholic Days of the Dead. November the first is the Feast of All Saints…
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A #tanka for A Month with Yeats: Day Four…#poetry
shattered moonlight our clanking steel stained red in celestial blood Danann departing at dawn so much mist in the morning for Jane Dougherty’s A Month with Yeats: Day Four
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#Free-style Friday 11/3/17…a #tanka for A Month with Yeats: Day 3
Another Tanka for Jane Dougherty’s renamed A Month with Yeats: Day 3 Tuatha de Danann their storm-swept ancient faces face our iron the distant black smoke of our burning ships
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A #Tanka for November Yeats Challenge-Day 2
desolate lands cold fire in his eyes embracing the dark how high the price we paid forging his dream with our blood for Jane Dougherty’s November Yeats Challenge–Day 2
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Special Wednesday #Tanka (Tuesday) Edition
cold North Wind no surprises left as we prepare our last march who knew immortality would cost this much? For Kiwinana’s Tuesday Weekly Tanka Challenge 69- Surprise and Prepare and Jane Dougherty Writes’ November Yeats Challenge- Day 1
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#Tanka Tuesday #1 10/31/17…Fright and Night this #Halloween…
Colleen’s Weekly #Poetry Challenge offers a new wrinkle for the month of November, beginning today: use synonyms of the prompts. dark descending tremble in terror as the dead assemble their feast laid bare before sunrise
Frank J. Tassone 