Category: poetry
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Magenta – a Sedoka
Here’s my latest submission for this week’s #TankaTuesday challenge. I started doing these a few weeks ago, and I am having a lot of fun with them! The challenge for this week is to write a syllabic poem about your birth sign’s color. I knew there were birth stones, but not colors. This is why…
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A Senryu series
Alcohol… the solution, and the cause of all life’s problems.
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Earthworm
Here is my submission for #TankaTuedsay poetry challenge no. 9. The challenge this week is an acrostic poem, and the theme is “underground” in the context of spring, with seeds and bulbs coming up from the earth. In respect to the syllabic form, I couldn’t figure one out. I’m still pretty new at this. It’s…
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Spring wind
Heres my first crack at the tankaTuedsay poetry challenge. The task is to choose a syllabic form. The theme is movement. I’m only familiar with haiku and tanka. My initial thought was to do one of those, but this is supposed to be a challenge, right? So I looked up some other types and decided…
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Tenacity
A haiku for a feisty flower.
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Tankas for the seasons
A tanka for each season.
Life is a dark ride 