Silver’s Weekly #Tanka #Poetry Prompt Challenge #4 PASSION & CHEER

Happy Tuesday everyone! Welcome to the TANKA CAFÉ. Are you ready to get groovy with your poetry? 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 the kami-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? You end up with 5/7/5/7/7.

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 “like” your post. 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 photos and create “Visual Tanka’s” if you wish, although it is not necessary. You can use Fotoflexer, Picmonkey, or Canva.com, or any other program that you want to make your 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 post:

HERE’S WHO JOINED US LAST WEEK FOR OUR 3^rd CHALLENGE USING THE WORDS – HOPE & WAIT:

Inexorable | The Poetry Channel

Tanka Tuesday: Hope and Wait – Image & Word

waiting in silence | rivrvlogr

#Tanka Tuesday Challenge | Potholes in the Road of Life

Morning tanka – Jane Dougherty Writes

Silver’s Weekly #Tanka #Poetry Prompt Challenge #3 Hope & Wait | Annette Rochelle Aben

Hope & Wait | thoughts and entanglements

New Day – My words, My life

Tanka – Hope/Wait | Mother Willow

Wait #Tanka | Sue Vincent – Daily Echo

neelwritesblog/poem/tanka/promptword-wait/tanka#02/13/10/2016 | neelwritesblog

Hope’s Dazzling Lights | Stutter-Stepping Heart

When there is hope – Ontheland (Edit)

Hope – Leara writes and other creative things…

I Fly – Naa PraPacham, My World

My Sweet Lover – Always a Writer

Autumn Blues – Thoughts and Entanglements

Silver’s Weekly #Tanka #Poetry Prompt Challenge #3 Hope & Wait – Two on a Rant

I am blown away by last week’s Tanka poems. The depth of emotions expressed through your words moved me. That is why we are here, to evoke emotions from our words.

Since you did so well last week, are you ready to have another go at it?

Here are our two words for this week’s challenge: PASSION & CHEER (any forms of the words, AND don’t forget that you can use synonyms)

I used desire for PASSION and acclaim for CHEER

“The Ending”

Colleen M. Chesebro

WRITE YOUR TANKA POEM NOW! You CAN do it! Don’t forget to link to this post so I can find you and retweet your creation. Have a marvelous week. ❤

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