Tag: #TankaTuesday
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#TankaTuesday Weekly #Poetry Challenge No. 321, 5/23/23
Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash I’m taking part in the Wordcraft poetry challenge hosted by Colleen. This week’s challenge is to write a specific form with a twist! Write an acrostic poem with a syllable count of 8, 9, or 10 syllables per line (all the same, or a mixture of syllable counts, is fine). HOW to…
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Tanka Tuesday : Poetry Challenge No. 319, 5/9/2023 – Those flowers on the embankment
This week’s #TankaTuesday challenge is a photo prompt. The photograph is taken by, Terri Webster Schrandt. Terri says: “As May brightens 2023, I came across this image in my archives from spring 2018. My hubby and I spent 12 summer weekends at our Sacramento River Delta campground, where wind and board sports are a must-do. After a long day…
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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,…
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TankaTuesday : Poetry Challenge No. 276 – Journey
I’m linking this post to Colleen’s #TankaTuesday Weekly #Poetry Challenge No. 276, 5/31/22, #ShareYourDay . It’s my first time participating in it. I’ve long wanted to but, somehow, I hadn’t been able to. This week’s prompt is to share your day in syllabic poetry alongwith a picture. I took the below photograph of the lady,…