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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Hey, you lookin' at me? Image: Openverse.
Senryu: My Big Fleeting Moment of Enchantment–Summer Gratitude to HOTEL by Masticadores
Thanks Hotel by Masticadores. Senryu focuses on the awkward moments in life making the human, not the world around them, the subject.
August 9, 2024
Earth and Sky Show: Photo by S.U
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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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
gray concrete bridge and waterfalls during daytime Photo by Blake Verdoorn on Unsplash
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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Heat Smolders My Coquette Windchimes: Challenge 43
🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐 made of fine crystalthey smolder with annoyancethe coquette windchimes* midsummer darknesseven moss dreams of the nightwhen the sun goes down* there's not enough willpower for cutting the grassrelish rewilding*©…
July 16, 2024
Ada's Monologue - Image by Susan Cipriano from Pixabay
Dectina Refrain: Two of Your Favorite Things, My Love
…give me the serenity to surrender to the things I cannot change.
June 20, 2024
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Dectina Refrain: Be Kind to Your Heart
Stilldear mind,and listento the tempoof our faithful heartthat beats despite the hurtthrough seasons of disconcertwhen it'd be wiser to give up,but does not: persisting to keep time.Still dear mind, and…
June 18, 2024
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A Sijo About A Masked Bandit
Written for Tanka Tuesday: 24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry Challenge, No. 37, 6/4/24,Part I, The Time of Planting Grains (June 6 – 19) Today, June 04th.What a lovely picture, Colleen. I…
June 4, 2024
Gathering Bamboo Shoots Suzuki Harunobu by The Art Institute of Chicago is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0
Alone, Silently, And Writing A Kimo Or Two
“Alone, silently—the bamboo shootbecomes a bamboo” ~ SANTŌKA on a bamboo shootunder the low purple lighta crow sits alone© selma The above haiku is a leftover from the other day…
May 31, 2024
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