Never has it been as profuse as when in the thick of torrid summer heat melancholy accommodates. [Etheree]
This is my second time writing a Kimo; my first with the garland Kimo. From revisiting that first time post, I realize one more point, Kimo is an Israeli version of the haiku. Unrhymed. No title.
We're talking sunflowers at Tanka Tuesday today. What an iconic flower !
Thanks Hotel by Masticadores. Senryu focuses on the awkward moments in life making the human, not the world around them, the subject.
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…
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…
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…
🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐🎐 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*©…
…give me the serenity to surrender to the things I cannot change.
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…
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…