Silver’s Weekly #Tanka #Poetry Prompt Challenge #3 Hope & Wait

Happy Tuesday everyone! Welcome to the TANKA CAFÉ. Are you ready to get your poetry groove on? Then, you’re in the right place! Pull up a chair, order some coffee or tea and let’s write some TANKA poetry.

Here are some great sites that will help you write your Tanka.

thesaurus.com

For Synonyms and Antonyms. When your word has too many syllables, find one that works.

howmanysyllables.com

Find out how many syllables each word has. I use this site for all of my Haiku and Tanka poems. Click on the “Poetry Workshop” tab to create your Tanka. Here are the rules for the Tanka form: howmanysyllables.com

Poets.org gives the definition and the rules for the writing of a Tanka. Please note the following from the site:

“In many ways, the tanka resembles the sonnet, certainly in terms of treatment of the subject. Like the sonnet, the tanka employs a turn, known as a pivotal image, which marks the transition from the examination of an image to the examination of the personal response. This turn is located within the third line, connecting thekami-no-ku, or upper poem, with the shimo-no-ku, or lower poem.”

Writing a Tanka is like writing a Haiku (5/7/5) and adding two more lines. See how much more of a “visual image” you get in your mind’s eye?

My example:

Did you recognize the pivot in the third line? We start talking about my solitude, and then we switch to talking about the leaves of red and gold. The words are all connected and are talking about my response to autumn. It is important to try to join your feelings into your Tanka.

Visit Jean Emrich at tankaonline.com. She gives excellent instructions on how to join your feelings into this poetry form.

I will publish the Tanka Tuesday prompt at 12: 03 A.M. Mountain Standard Time (Denver
time). That should give everyone time to see the prompt from around the world.

How Long Do You Have and Your Deadline: You have a week to complete the Challenge with a deadline of Monday at 12:00 P.M (noon). This will give me a chance to add the links from everyone’s Tanka post from the previous week, on the new prompt I send out on Tuesday. I urge everyone to visit the blogs and comment on everyone’s Tanka poem.

The rules are simple.

I will give you two words that you need to use (in some form) in the writing of your Tanka.

The two words can be used in any way you would like to use them. Words have different definitions and you can use the definitions you like. Feel free to use synonyms for the words.

To do a Ping Back: Copy the URL (the HTTP:// address of my post) for the current week’s Challenge and paste it into your post. You may also place a copy of your URL of your Tanka Post in the comments of the current week’s Challenge post.

People from the challenge may visit you and comment or click like. I also need at least a Ping Back or a link in the comments section to know you participated and to include you in the Weekly Review section of the new prompt on Tuesday.

BE CREATIVE. Use your own photos and create “Visual Tankas” if you wish, although it is not necessary. You can use Fotoflexer, Picmonkey, or Canva.com, or any other program that you wish to make your own images. Click the links to go to the programs.

I will visit your blog, comment, and TWEET your TANKA.

You may copy the badge I have created to go with the Tanka Tuesday Challenge Post and place it in your own post:

HERE’S WHO JOINED US LAST WEEK FOR OUR 2^nd  CHALLENGE USING THE WORDS – MAGIC & GLITTER:

Resurrected Heart | The Poetry Channel

Silver’s Weekly #Tanka #Poetry Prompt Challenge #2 Magic & Glitter | Annette Rochelle Aben

Magic & Glitter | thoughts and entanglements

Silver’s Weekly #Tanka #Poetry Prompt Challenge #2 Magic & Glitter – ladyleemanila

Tanka – Magic/Glitter | Mother Willow

magic greets the eye | rivrvlogr

Blinding rhetoric – Ontheland

Tanka | Potholes in the Road of Life

Tanka 2 for Today | Potholes in the Road of Life

Sunrise – Leara writes and other creative things…

Starry Sky – My words, My life

Sunrise – Leara Writes & Takes Pics

Nature – Naa Prapancham, My World

Silver’s Weekly #Tanka #Poetry Prompt Challenge #2 Magic & Glitter – Two on a Rant

Green Fairy | Lemon Shark Reef

Your Tanka poems made me smile with joy! You guys are the best! Thanks for sharing the beauty of your words.

Are you ready to write a Tanka?

Here are our two words for this week’s challenge: HOPE & WAIT (any forms of the words)

For hope, I used aspiration

For wait, I used waiting

“My Dream”

An aspiration –

A dream of ink on paper,

Words swirl in my head

Stories begging to be told,

Books waiting to be written.

by
Colleen Chesebro

Come on… I know you want to do it. Share your Tanka poem with us! Don’t forget to link to this post. See you next week!