Category: poetry
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TankaTuesday challenge #18 – a fruitful senryu
A senryu about a fruit I love to hate.
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TankaTuesday challenge #17 – a Rensaku
A rensaku is a tanka, haiku, or senryu series. This particular challenge has us focus on the topic of relationships. I decided to explore the symbiotic relationship of the four elements – earth, wind, fire, and water
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TankaTuesday Challenge #15 – the Cinquain
An eternal return The wheel Spinning the years, ticking the clock Beginnings reach the end Tomorrow starts Again The challenge for this TankaTuesday is to write a Cinquain with a theme about commencments – or more simply put – beginnings. As we typically find as we make our circles around the sun, beginnings also signify…
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TankaTuesday challenge #14 – a seox of hope
There is no hope without fear. There is no fear without hope. ~Baruch Spinoza
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TankaTuesday challenge #13 – Stay in joy
Here’s a dodoitsu for this week’s #TankaTuesday challenge. A breath exhaled in wonder Stars fly the darkened grasses Bits of light to fill a jar Child’s joy complete A dodoitsu is a Japanese poem characterized as having a syllable structure of 7-7-7-5: 26 syllables. No rhyming. No title. It also requires a”kigo” word. I had to…
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#TankaTuesday Challenge #12 – the hainka
Sweet scented air drips Following the clean spring rain Lilacs hang their heads The traffic streams blind Unnoticed to the wonder Sweet scented air drips Purple blur periphery Stop to look some other day This is for the #TankaTuesday challenge #12. I won’t go into a huge explanation of what it is. It’s a little…
Life is a dark ride 