Sunflowers Tanka Prose For The Beginning of Autumn
We're talking sunflowers at Tanka Tuesday today. What an iconic flower !
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August 16, 2024
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A Heroic Sonnet: Oh Home!
Of compasses and things that still brim you over when you think of them. I hope you enjoy this Heroic Sonnet.
August 13, 2024
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As We Sweat Into Autumn: The Four O’Clocks
This week at Colleen's Tanka Tuesday they're talking about Autumn. Oh MY!How wonderful that sounds... here, no signs of that being remotely so. As far as I can tell, nothing…
August 8, 2024
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Jarring The Mozzies On The Porch
Laid back on rockers on the porchsupper done, the dishes done,it's easy now that they are twothe dim-lit house stands silentthey brandish a long herb garnito jar mozzies in one…
August 7, 2024
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Aglow Like The Summer Sun
hot midday hourssunning under Sun-flowers she mimics the sun Copyright © selma 🎐🎐🎐 This haiku was inspired by William Blake's poem Ah Sun-flower! weary of time,Who countest the steps of the…
August 6, 2024
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When Summer Comes On Too Strong
When my keenness for food dwindles, nature’s produce isle sits outsidefrom kale and lettuce to new sproutscarotenoids turn to Vit-Aprotects the skin from UV raysstrengthens skin's guard against the sunthe…
August 3, 2024
Perennial Like Spring
✅As recent as the other dawningthe violets peeped from the groundto color the stiff cold gray—soon, over the prairie fanning Plum blossoms of white and pinkturned green on the breast…
August 1, 2024
WDYS 247: Image credit; Tom Barrett of artwork; sculpture by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa
Ha’sonnet: Dear Life–A Prayer
WDYS 247: Image credit; Tom Barrett of artwork; sculpture by Spanish artistJaume Plensa Dear Lake do all you canto console mesometimes a manlongs to be freeof the harsh wordsthat minds…
August 1, 2024
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Biolet: W3 #117 on Love and Hate–Quinella
Hello friends. This week’s W3 Prompt #117 hosted by our beloved Sadje, is where theparty’s at. Please take a look: https://skepticskaddish.com/2024/07/24/w3-prompt-117-weave-written-weekly/ Details: I. The prompt poem: ‘What amuses me?’, a…
July 27, 2024
Quadrille: ‘Tis Too Hot: Summer Kineses
Noonday lays bare—an open parenthesis,summering endlessly with cicadas' melodiespumps me buoyant, all tensions easeBut the seagull washed up in the sea...How do you figure?The tiny red spider waiting by the…
July 26, 2024
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Haiku: Heatwave, Sweltering Summer
On July 21st, the full moon night was cloudy. So the following evening found me sittingat the beach reading and waiting to see the moon rise. I read as much…
July 25, 2024
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Evanescence: What Do You See # 246 Prompt
WDYS # 246 Sadje says: Does this picture inspire you to write something? For the visually challenged reader, this image shows a white wolf standing in a foggyforest, with white…
July 23, 2024