Life is a dark ride

Category: poetry

  • TankaTuesday challenge #13 – Stay in joy

    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…

  • #TankaTuesday Challenge #12 – the hainka

    #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…

  • Magenta – a Sedoka

    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…

  • A Senryu series

    A Senryu series

    Alcohol… the solution, and the cause of all life’s problems.

  • Earthworm

    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…

  • Spring wind

    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…