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.
Category: 24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry Challenge
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…
24 SSPC 50 — (1st week) White Dew (Sept 7-22) Hakuro 白露 — Conduit
Conduit Each morning I sit with first cuppajoe, notebook, and pen; one cat on my lap and one beside. Between the beginning of July and the end of August, one poem per day has been committed to be written for a poetry postcard festival. By mid-August the creative process is feeling forced. I’ve written poems…
24 SSPC 49 (2nd week) Fading Heat (Aug 23 -Sept 6, 2024) Shosho (tanka series)
Only twenty bucks,fall planting garlic for sale.Thank you but no thanks.Don’t get me wrong; I love it,olive-oiled jarred, minced for two. Tomato packet said purple, plenty, and dwarf;none of them apply.Instead, dark red, few, and bignow supplement bought bushels. What was I thinkingby not planting zucchinithis perfect growing season?I also skipped sunflowers;chipmunks and birds mystified….
24 SSPC 48 (1st week) Fading Heat (Aug 23 -Sept 6, 2024) Shosho (tanka)
Dark berry border menagerie of beaked joy spoils my appetite; but one conscience rests easy in today’s fresh autumn air. Every year I say I will go out and pick ripe blackberries and raspberries. Every year I might pick a couple on a stroll through the yard. 99+% go to the birds and that’s OK,…
24 SSPC 47 — (2nd week) The Beginning of Autumn (Aug 7-21) Risshu 立秋 — Time Benders
Time Benders In dreams, yesterday’s suns visit. Today’s shadows, drought’s parched earth, where nothing can grow. I weep. American cinquain form top photo taken on July 13, 2021 Colleen Chesebro is the host of TankaTuesday. Colleen wants us to include sunflowers in our syllabic poetry this week.
24 SSPC 46 — (1st week) The Beginning of Autumn (Aug 7-21) Risshu 立秋 — The Coming of Autumn
The Coming of Autumn the coming of autumn is certainit hints with soft wind in grassesstone lantern flickers at dusk tomatoes multiply on vinesstill green, but growing largerthe coming of autumn is certain afternoon stroll through the gardenneon white clouds in vivid blueit hints with soft wind in grasses scent of humus on the path…
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