Tag: tanka
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A #tanka ode to wind and water #poetry #odes #dVerse
windswept lake morning light shimmers toward shore what remedy better salves my soul, wind and water, than you? For dVerse MTB–Odes
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A #Tanka for a Month with Keats: Day Nine #haiku #poetry
‘Troy passed away in one high funeral gleam, And Usna’s children died.’ W.B. Yeats Paris’ arrow Achilles’ bloodied tendon preceding his fall Conor’s sword fells Unis’ sons and Diedre’s shattered heart For Jane Dougherty’s A Month with Yeats—Day 9
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A #tanka for A Month With Yeats…of bloodied tides and lost innocence…#poetry
‘The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned;’ first blood she whispers in the dark “Are you inside?” shards of a shattered culture Strewn in the wake of my “yes” For Jane Dougherty’s A Month with Yeats–Day 8
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#Tanka Tuesday #2: of Mystery and Dreams
photo credit Autumn mystery colored leaves the last remains of our summer dreams these abbreviated days their accompanying cold for Kiwinana’s Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge week 70–Mystery and dreams and Toads’ Tuesday Platform UPDATE: and for Thotpurge’s Micropoetry Month: Nov 2017 #7
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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
