Tag: TankaTuesday
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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 #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…
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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…
Life is a dark ride 