orange
purple and green
secondary colours
reflecting caterpillar’s life
renewed
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Padre
Second Life
#Tanka Tuesday
Bloom
precurser pale pink
winter tortured bough adorned
seasons’ change erupts
harbinger of new promise
of the coming of the spring
Padre
https://wordcraftpoetry.com/2021/10/19/tankatuesday-weekly-poetry-challenge-no-248-photoprompt/
Summer’s End
It is the last day of academic summer, and preparations for school have begun. The care-free days of the long holiday have now, in a single span of 24 hours seen a sea change. Gone is the casual lounging in the garden, and the months of preparation, delivery, and marking are at hand.
School clothes washed – ironed
Schedules checked, papers arranged
Lesson plans reviewed
Final walk in the garden
Academic year begins
Padre
Colleen has challenged us to try our hand at the tanka prose form. She notes, that “We typically write tanka prose in the 5-7-5-7-7 or a s/l/s/l/l five-line syllabic structure. Tanka prose should contain a title. There is one basic requirement in writing tanka prose: one paragraph, and one tanka.”
Octa-octa
Colleen’s challenge this week is to take a favourite form and tweak it into something new. I have long loved Edgar Allan Poe’s use of Trochaic octameter with its eight trochaic metrical feet. In my piece I have replaced the trochaic feet with simple syllables. I have kept some “DUM da DUM da DUM da” stresses, but have let the beat be driven by the words and the eight syllable form. I have also made this an eight line form.
when at times we do not trouble
we complacent tend to stumble
into apathetic bubbles
the world around us we ignore
unaware of what lies in store
till too late like midnight raven
the world we face – leaving haven
to find the old world – “nevermore”
Padre
Tanku
a soft drizzle falls
earth dampening by morning
flowers drink in life
the sunshine returns
nights dampness away it burns
the cycle goes on
water and sun, night and dawn
nature in its endless turns
In Colleen‘s challenge, she has posted a new form she devised. It is a “haiku (3-5-3) and a tanka (5-7-5-7-7 with an end rhyme of a, a, b, b, a) together and call it a tanku. Rhyme scheme (x, x, x, a, a, b, b, a). No title.” Her challenge was to create our own new forms which I will try too, but I just had to give her form a go as well. Please see it above.
Padre
The Sphere
sunrise
and light’s increase
until midday zenith
then slow decrease – fading away
at dusk
Colleen’s challenge is to write a syllabic poem using only synonyms for Dawn & Twilight.
Padre
Spring Break: A Nonet
A deal absolutely fabulous
An offer to good to be true
A journey of a life-time
During the break from school
Accommodation
And excursions
Provided
At Home
Free
Padre
Fated
Falling
Pure energy
In motion decending
Seeking the pathway to the sea
Fated
Padre
#TANKA TUESDAY WEEKLY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 226 #EKPHRASTIC #PHOTOPROMPT
Seeking Home
In this
Incarnation we relocate
From abode to abode
Changing shelters
Called home
Padre
#Tanka Tuesday Weekly #Poetry Challenge No. 225, #SynonymsOnly: Life and Move
While Picnics Wait
When rains
Arrive beating
Winds howl and fences creak
Be thankful for prescious moisture
Cloud born
Water
While at times falling – unwelcome
Still is a life giver
The Spring picnics
Can wait
Padre
After an April with near drought conditions, I was glad to see much needed rain. Yet all across social media people were complaining that the May Bank Holiday was a “wash-out.” This despite the fact that the pandemic is still a very real thing.
Written for Colleen’s Poet’s Choice challenge.
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