RE-POST – Colleen’s 2019 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 146 #SynonymsOnly

Posted byColleen M. ChesebroPosted inTanka Tuesday Poetry Challenges

WELCOME TO TANKA TUESDAY!

I apologize for all the trouble. This is a REPOST of the original challenge post from this morning. The sharing buttons are missing and I can’t get them to show up. The issue has to do with the new editor and the fact that I copied the post. Apparently that is a no-no. Is the Gutenberg editor cursed?

Let’s see if this works. Please let me know if you still do not see sharing buttons. I can’t see them in the preview.

Link your poetry to either post. I’ll check both of them. ❤

HAPPY AUTUMN! Image by Rebekka D from Pixabay

Hi! I’m glad to see you here. Are you ready to write some syllabic poetry?

Here are your two words for this week:

FALL & GIVE

HERE’S THE CATCH: You can’t use the prompt words! SYNONYMS ONLY! 

Check the thesaurus for different meanings of these words. The word fall is a homonym.

PLEASE support the other poets by visiting their blogs and leaving comments. Sharing each other’s work on social media is always nice too.

This challenge is for Haiku, Senryu, Haiga, Tanka, Haibun, Etheree, Nonet, Shadorma, and Cinquain poetry forms. Freestyle rhyming poetry is not part of this challenge. Thank you. ❤

For Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge, you can write your poem in one of the forms defined below. Click on the links to learn about each form:

HAIKU IN ENGLISH 

SENRYU IN ENGLISH

HAIGA

TANKA IN ENGLISH 

HAIBUN IN ENGLISH 

CINQUAIN & the variations on Cinquain-Wikipedia 

ETHEREE

NONET

SHADORMA

Here are some great sites that will help you write your poetry and count syllables

synonyms.com 

This site even has a link so you can install the extension on Google Chrome.

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 to compose my poems. Click on the “Workshop” tab, then cut and paste your poetry into the box. Click the Count Syllables button on the button. This site does the hard work for you.

I don't get it

THE RULES

I will publish the Tuesday prompt post at 12: 03 A.M. Mountain Standard Time (Phoenix, AZ).  That should give everyone time to see the prompt from around the world. I publish the RECAP on Monday and it will contain the poetry from the Poet of the Month and any Honorable Mentions.

You have one week to complete the Challenge with a deadline of Sunday, at 12:00 P.M. (Noon) Phoenix, AZ, U. S. A.

The rules are simple

Follow the schedule listed below:

Please do a LINK-BACK to this challenge by copying the https:// address of this post into your own.

Don't forget

As time allows, I will visit your blog, comment, and TWEET your POETRY. I have also been sharing some of your poetry on Facebook.

If you add these hashtags to your post TITLE on your blog (depending on which poetry form you use) your poetry may be viewed more often:

#Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma

You may copy the badge I have created to go with the Weekly Poetry Challenge Post and place it in your post. It’s not mandatory:

Have fun and write some poetry!


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.

53 thoughts on “RE-POST – Colleen’s 2019 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 146 #SynonymsOnly”

  2. Buttons are there, Sis. You’re not the only one with blog issues. Others have been complaining about missing content. I’ll bet WP ran an update and now they’re playing dumb. Oh, wait, maybe not playing. 🙄

    Liked by 1 person

  6. Pingback: Listen – Yesterday and today: Merril's historical musings

        1. There are many themes available now for gutenberg. This block system is used by other blog sites, so this is probably the wave of the future. The editor isn’t bad. I do like it. I just want it to work. LOL! 😀

          Liked by 1 person

  10. I’ve had issues with the reblog button disappearing along with others, however, the problem seems to have cleared up for me just recently. I use the new editor and find it takes time to get used to but it has many cool features.

    Liked by 1 person

          1. I started using the new editor early on because it was easier to learn it one step at a time and not feel rushed. I think WP is trying to make it more adaptable as they populate their revisions. With that said, revisions can cause issues, and so it goes.

            Liked by 1 person

            1. LOL! I like to stay on top of technology. Once I started using the new editor I liked it. The issue has always been that the two editors clash and cause problems. I can see it phasing out soon.

              Liked by 1 person

  11. Pingback: Smorgasbord Poetry – Colleen Chesebro’s Tuesday #Tanka Challenge -Double Etheree – A Celebration by Sally Cronin | Smorgasbord Blog Magazine
  13. Pingback: Tanka Tuesday | thoughts and entanglements
  15. Pingback: Conquer – #Shadorma – #poetrychallenge | Night Owl Poetry - Dorinda Duclos
  16. Pingback: (lost) treasure – K.
  20. Pingback: Seven Links 9/28/19 Traci Kenworth – Where Genres Collide Traci Kenworth YA Author & Book Blogger
  21. Pingback: faint hints | Annette Rochelle Aben
  23. Pingback: Smorgasbord Blog Magazine – The Weekly Round Up – A Fairy Story, Evergreen, Chocolate, Health, New Books and Reviews oh and a lot of laughter.. | Smorgasbord Blog Magazine
  24. Pingback: Smorgasbord Blogger Daily – Tuesday October 1st 2019 – #Challenge Special – Colleen Chesebro, D.Wallace Peach,Charli Mills and Carol J. Foster | Smorgasbord Blog Magazine

Comments are closed.

%d bloggers like this: