A New Day Dawns – A #Tanka

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Focus on the image below and breathe… Use your five senses and experience a new day.

Deep in the forest
pine needle musk scents the air
near a babbling brook.
Rising dawn yellows the sky
announcing a brand new day.

©2017 Colleen M. Chesebro

Forest = earth, and brook = water: Part of my poetry challenge. <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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29 Comments

  1. Simply-Me
    25 Mar 2017 at 12:49 am

    Colleen, this is beautiful and refreshing. I loved it and could feel the new dawn day with the sun rising.

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  2. merrildsmith
    25 Mar 2017 at 4:28 am

    A lovely image to take with me into the day. 🙂

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  3. olganm
    25 Mar 2017 at 4:45 am

    Lovely! Thanks, Colleen!

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  4. adeleulnais
    25 Mar 2017 at 12:11 pm

    Beautiful, Colleen. xx

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  5. E.C.
    25 Mar 2017 at 1:30 pm

    Beautiful tanka. Your photo looks surreal, I feel as if I could step into it and stroll over there and check out the bridge. And perhaps see a nature folk relaxing and enjoying the day. 🙂

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  7. Annette Rochelle Aben
    25 Mar 2017 at 4:10 pm

    Gee, I felt like I could walk around in your tanka! It was fun.<3

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  8. Teagan Geneviene
    25 Mar 2017 at 11:21 pm

    A new day… It’s what we all hope for, isn’t it? In so many ways. Well done, Colleen. Lovely. Mega hugs.

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  9. Sarah Brentyn
    27 Mar 2017 at 10:51 am

    Oh, gorgeous photo and poem! <3

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  11. Marje @ Kyrosmagica
    28 Mar 2017 at 1:59 am

    Only one word to describe this Colleen: beautiful. Xx

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