The Amber-Haired Girl – A Tanka

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Happy Friday! Here I am again for my Tanka challenge, I kept the prompt words of “peace and spirit.” Both words have many connotations and can change the meaning of your Tanka poetry in many ways. By the way, please link your Tanka to my post found here.

The amber-haired girl –

heir to the green fairy stone

leads the Naiad nymphs

while her spirit burns brightly

peace descends upon the swamp.

©Colleen M. Chesebro

Video credit: Eloise De Sousa

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Published by Colleen M. Chesebro

An avid reader, Colleen M. Chesebro rekindled her love of writing poetry after years spent working in the accounting industry. These days, she loves crafting syllabic poetry, flash fiction, and creative fiction and nonfiction. In addition to poetry books, Chesebro’s publishing career includes participation in various anthologies featuring short stories, flash fiction, and poetry. She’s an avid supporter of her writing community on Word Craft Poetry.com by organizing and sponsoring a weekly syllabic poetry challenge, called #TankaTuesday, where participants experiment with traditional and current forms of Japanese and American syllabic poetry. Chesebro is an assistant editor of The Congress of the Rough Writers Flash Fiction Anthology & Gitty Up Press, a micro-press founded by Charli Mills and Carrot Ranch. In January 2022, Colleen founded Unicorn Cats Publishing Services to assist poets and authors in creating eBooks and print books for publication. In addition, she creates affordable book covers for Kindle and print books. Chesebro lives in the house of her dreams in mid-Michigan surrounded by the Great Lakes with her husband and two (unicorn) cats, Chloe & Sophie.

19 thoughts on “The Amber-Haired Girl – A Tanka”

    1. OH, thank you. I really had a hard time with my own words this week! I bet everyone will be glad when my book is finally published so I’ll write about something else! LOL! ❤

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  7. Colleen, I’m thrilled to have discovered your blog (because of your follow). I feel like I’ve just walked into to a magical department store, and I don’t know which direction to go first. Beautiful blog!

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