Tag: #tanka

• #TankaTuesday Weekly #Poetry Challenge No. 329, 7/18/23 – Specific Form

  

  I’m participating in Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday, which requires us to write a Imayo. A Imayo is a syllabic poetry of four 12 syllable lines. You can read an example here. This Tuesday, as per the prompt the subject of the Imayo should be a ‘Bird’. I wrote on the Eurasian Magpie, a bird I spotted…

  Smitha V

  July 19, 2023

  Photography, Poetry

  #bird, #imayo, #magpie, #nature, #norwaybird, #poem, #poetrychallenge, #tanka, #Tankatueday, #wordcraftpoetry

• FOTD 070623: Lilacs & Weekly poetry challenge No. 323, 6/6/23

  

  I’m participating in the Flower of the Day challenge and in Wordcraft poetry. The wordcraft poetry challenge requires us to choose a colour and write a syllabic poetry on the color and use one of the words associated with the color provided in the chart below by Colleen. My flower for today is lilacs. And…

  Smitha V

  June 7, 2023

  Poetry

  #beauty, #lilac, #lilacs, #nature, #norway, #poetrychallenge, #purple, #scandinavia, #tanka, #tanka sequence, #TankaTuesday

• Tanka Tuesday: Fly like a butterfly

  

  This week’s #TankaTuesday prompt from Wordcraft poetry is to write an ekphrastic poem based on the below image provided by Reena. Here’s my tanka, which is a Japanese form of poetry with a syllable count of 5/7/5/7/7. My wings opened wideOver the divided earth,the fish in the sea,the flowers and the green leavesI fly in faith,…

  Smitha V

  August 23, 2022

  Poetry

  #butterfly, #courage, #ekhphrasticprompt, #faith, #inspiration, #photoprompt, #poetrychallenge, #tanka, #TankaTuesday

• Carpe Diem #1329 – Rebirth…I see Thee in the Flowers.

  

  For today’s quote, I wrote a Tanka  Sequence or Tanka String as it is called (a group of Tankas related to each other. A Tanka for those who are not aware is Japanese poetry written in sentences following the 5-7-5-7-7 syllables pattern. Today’s quote is: […] “The ashes of the dead … will become the…

  Smitha V

  December 22, 2017

  Poetry

  #carpe diem 1399 rebirth, #carpe-diem-haiku-kai, #death, #haiku, #life, #love, #memories, #nature, #paulocoelhonovelthefifthmountain, #rebirth, #rememberyou, #tanka, #tanka sequence, Poetry

• Carpe Diem#1327- And then I knew how much I loved you

  

  […] “An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.” […] (Source: Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho Wrote a Tanka on the quote provided: Was angry with you, Hurt! Wanted to break away, Then you made a call, To tell me, you were dying… Now, I am angry with me! Copyright © 2017. lifeateacher.wordpress.com.…

  Smitha V

  December 19, 2017

  Poetry

  #anger, #carpe diem #1327 A perfect life, #carpe-diem-haiku-kai, #death, #grief, #hurt, #life, #tanka, Poetry