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Street car
Left abandoned
Amid the blowing sands
Time capsule of an age and place
Distant
Padre
#TANKA TUESDAY WEEKLY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 222 #EKPHRASTIC #PHOTOPROMPT
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Street car
Left abandoned
Amid the blowing sands
Time capsule of an age and place
Distant
Padre
#TANKA TUESDAY WEEKLY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 222 #EKPHRASTIC #PHOTOPROMPT
Needles
Blow in the breeze
Evergreen scent drifting
Over the landscape so tranquil
Peaceful
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Purple
Lavender
Fragrant
Colleen’s challenge is to write in a specific form and she has cited haiku and senryu as the week’s choice. She notes: “The current standards for creating Haiku in English suggest a form with three lines and syllables of 3/5/3 (11 syllables). Even the more abbreviated haiku version with three lines and syllables of 2/3/2 (7 syllables) is now thought of more favorably than the traditional 5/7/5 format.” I have therefore gone with the abbreviated seven syllable form.
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A life
Everlasting
Where death does not devour
Immortality’s promise found
Endless
#TANKA TUESDAY WEEKLY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 217: “Immortality”
Breath held
Excited anticipation
Dreams that their team will win
They fill the stands
Trusting
Colleen’s syllabic challenge this week is to write a poem using synonyms for eager and hope. As sports often have reversals, I have gone with a reverse cinquain form.
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Rich woods
Strongly brewed tea
Luscious dark chocolate
My morning coffee steamy brown
Lavish
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Distant –
Sleep united
Nocturnal encounters
Of our souls and minds in repose
Dreams sweet
Colleen’s syllabic challenge is to write a poem with the themes of dreams.
Moisture
To hold at bay
Umbrella prepared – perched
Always ready to save the day
Keep dry
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WEEKLY #TANKA TUESDAY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 213 #EKPHRASTIC #PHOTOPROMPT
Stepping stones o’er rough ground
Walkway for those in need
Helping them to proceed
To their path’s end
And if the way ahead
Seems one found unready
Making steps unsteady
To the path cling
Those who have gone before
The same steps they have made
And the stones they have laid
To bring you home
Padre
Colleen’s challenge this week is for the poet to choose the theme of their work. She has also introduced a new syllabic form: the abhanga. It is stanzaic, written in any number of 4 line stanzas, with a syllabic structure of 6-6-6-4 each. It also uses a rhyme scheme of x a a x , x being unrhymed. I have used the attached photo as an additional prompt.
Wow!
I’m here
It seems odd
Amnesia?- But
Where did I come from?
Isn’t it still yesterday?
I am in the here and now
But I don’t remember just how
I managed to arrive to this place.
I ‘ll never push big red buttons again
Padre
#POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 210 #SYNONYMSONLY Words: Past and Present