Tag: tanka
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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
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#Haikai Challenge #5 (10/28/17/): Halloween #haiku #haibun #senryu #tanka
Thank you, Poets, for your participation in last week’s #Haikai Challenge 4: Darkness: Jilly- What Dark May Come Charley- Troiku – Fish Crow Vivian- Cloak of Darkness qbit- Three Haiku – Darkness revivedwriter- You Make the Darkness Light And now, the moment you all have been waiting for–this week’s #Haikai Challenge! It’s the last weekend…
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#Tanka Tuesday #2: of Medals and Memories
Kiwinana’s Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge 68 invites us to write tanka featuring the words medals and memories. Marion Month Miraculous medals shine in the dawn’s first light So many memories of vigils never made UPDATE: also for Real Toads Tuesday Platform!
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#Tanka Tuesday 10/24/17…as Halloween comes…
Colleen’s Weekly #Poetry Challenge poses the prompts “Eerie” and “Costume.” So appropriate, with Halloween around the corner. See if you can guess which short story inspired this tanka: Eerie moonlit mist guest in a red death costume at the masquerade how many tomorrows will come before the clock’s final gong? UPDATE: for dVerse…
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#Haikai Challenge 4 (10/21/17): darkness #haiku #haibun #senryu #tanka
Congratulations to Qbit (twice!), RevivedWriter (also twice!), and Jilly for participating in last week’s challenge. On to this week’s! It’s late October. The days shorten. So what better kigo (seasonal reference) could there be than darkness? Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to write a haikai poem that uses, or alludes to,…
