
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! ❤
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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.
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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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Thanks, Beth. Your sweet words made my day! Happy New Year, my friend! 😘❤
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Yes, you are right. We always feel such a surge of hope at new year.
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Thank you, Suzanne. Happy New Year, my friend. ❤
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Beautiful, we wish you and your family a happy new year 🙂
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Thank you, friends. I wish you all the best at the dawn of a new year! ❤
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Happy New Year, great tanka and of course, all the best of luck with your new book, Colleen!
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Many thanks, Olga. Happy New Year! ❤
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Lovely images dancing in my head and heart. Wishing you every happiness in 2017 and beyond! ❤
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Happy New Year my sweet friend. We are going to explode into 2017 and make it the best ever!! ❤
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Such marvelous joys!
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Happy New Year, Dorna. ❤
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Like this!!
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Thanks, Traci! Happy New Year! ❤
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Lovely. Happy New Year! ❤
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