Back at it with #TankaTuesday. We were invited to use seasonal words to create a winter poem. Love is always on my mind, so here we go!
Love like icicles They grow, lengthen, sharpen, fall. I will melt with you.
Hope this doesn’t seem cold 🙂
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First Frost
I’m back on #TankaTuesday. This week’s challenge is to write about the First Frost.
Frist frost glistening In my headlights as I turn Diamonds perch on grass
This actually happened this morning, so the timing is perfect. Although a sign of cold and winter, the beauty of crystals lit up in the dark warms the season.
Autumn Glory
Fall leaves! I celebrate your splash of color Your delicate yellows Citrus orange Majestic red I honor you, Because your changing hue Is the glory Of leaves dying. I will not forget your verdant green Your spring and summer Wind dances Hushing and shushing together. The brief glimpse of your Light underside. And to those trees That have already shed their leaves? I donʼt blame you. Iʼm tired too.
My first Haibun Monday – Equinox edition
I’m learning the Haibun form, which combines prose and poetry. I like this very much, since prose is my first love.
The challenge is to write a post about the equinox. Here’s mine:
Fall fell on its birthday this year in Connecticut. A twenty-degree dip in temperature in one day, cool replacing the wisps of warmth of a day ago. As if it knew its time had come and did not wish to tarry.
The sun is blocked out by clouds, so it is a grey day that we get half of. It’s been too nice for a lot of leaves to fall in the heavy rain: the trees’ green belies this sudden steely Autumn.
Darkness will do for the other half of the equinox. It is flexing now, beginning to feel its length stretch out before it, a host of days to darken.
Still I will balance Rotating, tilting, spinning Cycling through it all
Join the fun here.
Haiku for #tankatuesday
The challenge this week was to write a syllabic poem about this picture:
Here is my haiku:
Water embraces Boats, earth, us, waves lap and splash. Embrace connection. You should give it a try here.
Tanka for #tankatuesday
The challenge this week was to use synonyms for the words “Quiet” and “Seek”. Here’s mine:
A silent moment Golden awe full emptiness Empties the fullness Sound returns to me I search for the source of noise: It's my thoughts inside. Join the challenge here.
Haiku for #TankaTuesday
The challenge was to write about this image from the painter Berthe Morisot:
Here is my haiku:
Chair, windowsill, frame. Three layers of barriers To this connection.
Join the challenge here.
Haiku for #TankaTuesday
Anniversary “Imayo” for #TankaTuesday
The Imayo poetry form has these guidelines. A bit of a tough one 🙂 Also, it’s supposed to be about a bird, and it is: Lovebirds
- 4 lines (8 lines permissible)
- 12 syllables per line divided as 7-5
- make a pause space between the 7 and 5 syllables
As today is our 25th wedding anniversary, I will focus my poem on my wife and I.
The day after I met you, it was clear to me That I would call you up soon: my body shivered And I knew that if I called, destiny calls too And twenty-five years later, destiny rings true
It really has been a wonderful journey, and Patty has been an inspiration, a comfort, and my best friend. This one is for the love of my life! Happy Anniversary Patty!
***As always thank to Colleen M. Chesebro – the challenge is here.***
I am a tree for #tankatuesday
This weeks challenge involves using this website to find out what tree you are. I am an alder. The characteristics that immediately caught my attention were “trailblazer” and “pathfinder”, since I spend so much time in the woods.
Did I find this path? It has been worn into soil By thousands of feet. Now I add my steps to it My mind blazing a new way.
Although I often walk the same trails, they have a “same river twice” quality. I find that every hike is unique, and now matter how many times I walk the same path, my mind is renewed.
Have some fun and take the challenge here.
Mark Bozeman 