This week’s challenge is The Spice of Life: Choose a spice from your kitchen cabinet, and relate its flavor to an event that recently happened in your daily life. Write your syllabic poem! Bonus—if you share a photo of the spice in your post. 🌶️
REMEMBER… if you write a freestyle poem, you MUST include a syllabic poem on the same post! Connect the two pieces of poetry in an interesting way.
Ready to write but not sure how to write syllabic poetry? READ THIS FIRST: How to Craft Syllabic Poetry
An American Sentence:
The fragrance of nature’s bounty: spice of life–the ultimate reward.
The American Sentence is a concept of the legendary Beat Poet, Allen Ginsberg. It’s
simply a poem with 17 syllables in one line. The line should be a complete sentence.
It should capture a moment with a ‘turn.’
The elements of the American Sentence:
- composed in one line
- syllabic, 17 syllables
- condensed, written with no unnecessary words or articles
- a complete sentence
- includes a turn or enlightenment
A Tanka
spicy, slightly sweet
dark red-brown is its color
get bran and Vit K
your iron, and manganese
dab of Saigon Cinnamon
Tanka
5-7-5-7-7 syllable structure, or s-l-s-l-l. Tanka consists of 5 lines written in the first-person point of view from the perspective of the poet. The third line is considered your
“pivot,” but let it happen anywhere, or exclude it. It is not mandatory. If you use a pivot,
the meaning should apply to the first two lines, as well as the last two lines of your
tanka. Tanka is untitled and do not rhyme.
Written for Colleen M. Chesebro’s TankaTuesday Poetry Challenge No. 309 for February
28th, 2023.
Thanks for reading.
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Wonderful, Selma. Love it and love cinnamon too.💕
Cinnamon is a spice I cannot do without. Thanks, Grace Ciela. 😉 love your visit
Me too. You are so very welcome, my friend.💕🥰💕
This is another tribute to a lovely spice that we use all the time in baking and biryani. Well-penned Selma.
Perhaps the most used spice. Yes.
Thanks for the visit Balroop. Much appreciated. Xo
Pleasant imagery, Selma. I appreciated your instructions, too. 👍🏻
Thanks, dear Michele Lee.
Spicing up the poetry! 🥳 Enjoyed the tanka! 💗 ✒️💗
Spicing things up here. 😜 thanks for reading.
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Though I don’t care much for cinnamon, I like your poem, Selma. Also, cinnamon is good for blood sugar. <3
Cinnamon is good for helping regulate many human illnesses. Thanks for the visit, Cheryl. Bless you.
So interesting spice written poem. I like. Very useful for cinnamon.
Cinnamon is my favorite spice in the kitchen. Thanks for reading, Raj. Xoxo
I like eat spice cinnamon.
You send some spice.
Nicely done Selma. I love cinnamon
I love spicy food, Selma, and enjoyed your poetic homage to these spices! 🌶️
Thanks for reading, Ingrid. Blessing you.
A most worthy spice. (K)
Worthy. I know I cannot go without. Xo
Lovely ode to a beautiful spice. Makes me want to go boil some on the stove for the smell!
Yes, boil it for the smell. I grew up with that smell exactly in the water. Boiling for the morning tea. I adore it. Thanks Luanne. Blessings on your new week.
Thank you–you too, Selma! I found I had 2 jars of cinnamon sticks when I searched through my spices, so I am boiling the older ones just for the scent!
Very nice, Selma! I’m a big fan of cinnamon!
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Fans. We two. Yay! Thanks, Yve.
This is now the second verse about cinnamon – I might have to up my intake! 😀
(PS thank you for the Valentine 💖)
Jules, forgive my delayed acknowledgment to your comment. I appreciate you reading and commenting, dear one. You’re the sweetest. Almost as sweet as my Saigon Cinnamon. 🙃
Yay, and I’m so happy you received that token straight from my heart ❤️. We’re connected!
Blessings on your evening and new week. 😘
All is well. A new day beginns with the sun shining through the bay window chrystals that have decorated the walls and ceiling with little rainbows of color – that will last until the neighbors tree comes to full bloom and blocks the sun – though the small ash leaves do allow some light throgh 🙂
Cheers, hugs, and blessings 💌
Blessing you his glorious day, Jules. Good night from me. Xoxo
Beautiful poems, Selma. ❤️
Thanks for reading and stopping to tell me you liked it. Much appreciated. Bless you.
I eat cinnamon every other day on my oatmeal and fruit. I love it. Another spice we can’t do without. 💛
Bless you, Colleen. We’re a big Cinnamon crowd. Have a great weekend end. And all the best next week. Xoxo
Huge hugs to you, Selma. xxoo
Yep ~ it’s one of the most popular classics! love it too 😀
<3
David
Can I have some of that Saingon, please, Selma🥺🙏🏾😜
Jude, this Saigon cinnamon is good stuff. The best methinks
Good thing is you can go to your nearest COSTCO to stock up. Hope there’s a COSTCO near you. Blessings.
I will have to check what a COSTCO is, first.
Jude, my sweet friend. I’ll tell you— it’s a Giant Wholesaler. Originated in the USA (I think) and many years ago, one debuted in Japan. A members only warehouse. Stiff yearly membership charge. I do not belong. I prefer to support my local mom/pop shops. But once yearly I ask my neighbor to get me the one-of-a-kind Cinnamon. It really has no comparison.
A KIRKLAND brand. Cinnamon from Saigon. My fave. And I KNOW cinnamon.
I can add one for you on my next purchase. I will send to you. No pressure. If you want…