Tag: tanka
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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,…
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#Tanka Tuesday #3: Pumpkin season…for dVerse Poets Pub’s Tuesday Poetics–Autumn
Kim over at dVerse Poets Pub asks us to examine in detail anything associated with Autumn. What could be more Autumn than pumpkins? largest pumpkin wiping the dirt off of its back side the slices of his knife form the scariest face
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#Tanka Tuesday #2: The Beauty of Landscape and Artwork for Kiwinana’s #WeeklyTankaPromptChallenge67
Kiwinana asks us to write a tanka that includes the words landscape and art work. Here it goes! Hudson Landscapes artwork of that famous school hangs throughout the world Where are the next great artists painting the beauty of nature?
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#Tanka Tuesday 10/17/17…the beauty of silence and space…
Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge calls for inclusion of the words quiet and space, or their synonyms. Here is my Tanka: shattered silence Dave Matthews singing “the space between…” too early, this velvet sky too early, this break of dawn
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#Hakai Challenge #3: Foliage #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka
Congratulations to Qbit, Xenia and revivedwriter for participating in last week’s challenge! On to this week’s challenge! It’s mid-October. Halfway to Halloween. The leaves have begun their kaleidoscope of color. This week, write a haikai poem about fall foliage. You can reference the image or use the word “foliage” in your poem. Here’s how the…
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#Tanka Tuesday #2…Chillin’ out
Ode to our refrigerator Look what you hold inside, you stainless steel superconductor of cold. There’s the homemade lentil soup Mira made last night. And not far along Your offering shelf, anothe r of her dishes in a container, ready to go to work. The Brita pitcher, orange juice, the creamer we always return to…
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#Tanka Tuesday 10/10/17…of #ghosts, #hauntings, #beauty and #dreams
early twilight a seat in my late mother’s chair, glimpsing her ghost haunt me in every glimpse of the mirror before me For Colleen’s this week–ghost and haunt beauty of your face as I awaken from dreams of losing you a trial I may face someday but not today For Kiwinana’s…
