Ringing in the New Year – A Tanka

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Welcome to my contribution to my weekly Tanka challenge. This week, I kept the prompt words of ‘last and few.’ 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.

Ron and I have so much to be thankful for this year. My heart swells at the outpouring of love and friendship from my blogging community. Thank you all for making this a memorable year for me.

Don’s forget, great excitement lies just around the corner… On January 3, 2017, The Heart Stone Chronicles: The Swamp Fairy will finally be published. I can hardly contain my excitement! 😀

I would like to take this time to wish you peace and happiness.

The last hours tarry –

between the Yule and New Year,

time is suspended.

When Auld Lang Syne sweetly sings

hope recharges our spirits.

© 2016 Colleen M. Chesebro

Happy New Year everyone! <3

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Colleen M. Chesebro is a Michigan Poet who loves crafting syllabic poetry, flash fiction, and creative fiction and nonfiction. Colleen sponsors a weekly syllabic poetry challenge, called #TankaTuesday, on wordcraftpoetry.com where participants learn how to write traditional and current forms of syllabic poetry. A published author, Colleen is also an editor of “Word Weaving, a Word Craft Journal of Syllabic Verse, also found on wordcraftpoetry.com. Colleen’s mission is to bring the craft of writing syllabic poetry to anyone who thinks they can’t be a poet. Recently, she created the Double Ennead, a 99-syllable poetry form for the Carrot Ranch literary community at carrotranch.com. Colleen’s poetry has appeared in various anthologies and journals including “Hedgerow-a journal of small poems,” and “Poetry Treasures1 & 2” a collection of poetry from the poet/author guests of Robbie Cheadle on the “Treasuring Poetry” blog series on “Writing to be Read." Colleen published “Word Craft: Prose & Poetry, The Art of Crafting Syllabic Poetry,” which illustrates how to write various syllabic poetry forms used in her Tanka Tuesday challenges; and a collection of poetry, flash fiction, and short stories called, “Fairies, Myths & Magic: A Summer Celebration,” dedicated to the Summer Solstice. She contributed a short story called “The Changeling,” in the “Ghostly Rites Anthology 2020,” published by Plaisted Publishing House. Find Colleen at Word Craft: Prose & Poetry at wordcraftpoetry.com.
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16 Comments

  1. ksbeth
    28 Dec 2016 at 1:38 am

    this is lovely, colleen and i’m so happy to read your work as always. here’s to another year and more lovely works – beth

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  2. Suzanne
    28 Dec 2016 at 2:04 am

    Yes, you are right. We always feel such a surge of hope at new year.

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  3. mukhamani
    28 Dec 2016 at 3:03 am

    Beautiful, we wish you and your family a happy new year 🙂

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  4. olganm
    28 Dec 2016 at 5:01 am

    Happy New Year, great tanka and of course, all the best of luck with your new book, Colleen!

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  5. Annette Rochelle Aben
    28 Dec 2016 at 8:37 am

    Lovely images dancing in my head and heart. Wishing you every happiness in 2017 and beyond! <3

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  6. dornahainds
    28 Dec 2016 at 10:38 am

    Such marvelous joys!

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  9. Sarah Brentyn
    4 Jan 2017 at 3:07 pm

    Lovely. Happy New Year! <3

    Reply

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