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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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A poop by any other name is just as smelly
If you had to change your name, what would your new name be? I never thought about changing my name, but it reminds me of a story my dad told me many years ago. He had a friend named Steve Shit. As you can imagine, Steve got tired of being ribbed about his name. One…
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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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