winter solstice bells ring out with knowingtall candles light each windowtoasts to lengthening days Since I used the dodoitsu for #10, I’ll use the kimo form for this week.kigo: winter solsticeColleen Chesebro is the host of Tanka Tuesday.
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TT Halloween Poetry Challenge — Freedom’s Brew
Freedom’s Brew time is come, time is nowspell to bring aboutbanish of darkness to enable light’s shoutplucking ingredientsfalls to feathered two time is come, time is nowInk and Blot seek outobjects with shiny beams that twinkle just-sorecipes in their eyesand bubbled by wise time is come, time is nowone by one they’re gained:down from rabbit’s…
TTPC — Word Garden — fairy dance do
we listen evenings for fluttered wings of full moon glides silver flickers between bare trees leads where they soon turn and twirl in fairy dance do words used: listen soon do I took the picture on a garden tour last year. lanturne form series I am today’s host for TankaTuesday. Today’s challenge is to write…
TTPC — synonyms only (tanka)
want vacant breakfastsuits my vacant morning mindovernight oatmeal!usual hot, cold, jazzed up withcinnamon, raisins, maple syrup mindless = vacanthumdrum = usual Selma Martin is today’s host of TankaTuesday Poetry Challenge. Selma says: Your Tanka Tuesday challenge invitation is to write a tanka, plus choose two synonyms using the two words: Mindless and Humdrum
TankaTuesday Poetry Challenge — Paradise (tanka puente)
Paradisegold light envelopspulses flesh in its rightnesspatience rewardedoblivious beyond heatinevitable ashes~Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.~ reality riselike bile from a sucker punchcurled in a sick bedtear-soaked pillow, remembersonly the shiny apple top image: “APPLES OF EDEN” by Aurika Piliponiene. Bridge quote is from Chuck Palahniuk, from his novel, “Choke.”…
Tanka Tuesday — Tanka Puente — This and That Are One
This and That Are OneMerging libidosFusion-powered ecstasyIlluminates usPulsing new in old darknessForming new clay from old dust~Warning: over-fired vessels flare~Sun’s trajectoryBurns toward imminent duskHere, under a starless skyCold blows over shattered bitsDissolved in pools of hot tears puente form poem (with tanka) image link Robbie Cheadle is today’s host of TankaTuesday. Robbie says:This week we are…
24 SSPC 50 — (2nd week) White Dew (Sept 7-22) Hakuro 白露 — “There’s no place like home.”*
“There’s no place like home” Farm hand pump trickleswater into livestock trough,its clarity is interrupted onlyby textured superficiality. Water into livestock troughserves as mirror and magnifierfor still, swimming pool blue. Its clarity is interrupted onlyby patched seam, goldenrod reflections,and a single milkweed puff. By textured superficiality,benefactor’s childhood home returns, withsmooth, odorless animal sculptures. *Title taken…
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