Colleen’s 2019 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 154 #PhotoPrompt

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WELCOME TO TANKA TUESDAY!

Hi! I’m glad to see you here. Are you ready to write some syllabic poetry? I’ve updated my landing page to provide the challenge rules and links to all the poetry forms to make it easier for you to find. Check it out HERE!

It’s the middle of the month challenge ~ time for a photo prompt!

This month we will use a photo chosen by last month’s “Photo-Prompt” Poet of the Week ~ Linda Lee Lyberg.

Image by enriquelopezgarre from Pixabay

Use the above photo as the inspiration for your poem. Ask yourself questions. Be creative! What emotions does this photo stir in you?

You can use Pixabay or any other creative commons photos – just give attribution to the photographer. If you would like to use your own photos, just let me know that bit of information. Please email the photo NLT 3 days before the next month’s photo challenge.

After you’ve posted your poem on your blog, please copy your poem in the comments section of the challenge post. This way, we can find all the poetry in one place.

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.

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THE RULES

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

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

The rules are simple…

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

Click HERE to find Colleen M. Chesebro’s Facebook page. Please share the challenge poetry on your social media. Thanks.

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 #PhotoPromptPoetry

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!


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81 Comments on “Colleen’s 2019 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 154 #PhotoPrompt”

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  6. Going out Wednesday Colleen… but here is my

    Mirror Cinquain – Westward by Sally Cronin

    We wait
    within the cave;
    looking towards the east.
    The sun rises to guide the way
    westward.
    We leave,
    driven to pass on precious genes,
    of strength and stamina,
    humans will need
    to thrive.

    ©Sally Cronin 2019

    ♥

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  7. I’ve written a Haiku Garland about The Morrigan that will post on Wednesday.

    “The Morrigan”

    Shape-shifting goddess
    woman of the fairy mound
    divine poetess

    From haunted visions
    the great queen chooses her own
    heed the corvid’s call

    acknowledge and learn
    as she delves into your soul
    to expose your strengths

    Her voice, a whisper
    or a terrifying wail
    sovereignty required

    Morrigan of the
    raven wing, finder of souls
    I accept your gift.

    ©2019 Colleen M. Chesebro

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  18. I’m procrastinating, so I did this challenge. Hahaha. A shadorma sequence.
    https://merrildsmith.wordpress.com/2019/11/20/with-a-bang-comes-possibility/
    with a bang
    comes the birth of worlds
    and star songs
    drift, falling
    to papaya glow, rising
    over barren rocks

    then soaring
    above burnished crags
    the black-winged
    dreamers fly,
    carrying all the befores
    and all the afters

    landing here
    where light and shadows
    together
    dance, holding
    possibility aloft
    for millennia.

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  20. Return ( double etheree) https://scvincent.com/2019/11/20/return-3/

    Born
    Of Light
    Into light
    Endless cycle
    Being becoming
    Opened to greet the dawn
    Each heart a virgin landscape
    Enduring and embracing life
    Knowing the freedom of pure spirit
    Assimilating the gifts of constraint
    Each soul a mirror reflecting its Self
    Garnering the fruits of existence
    A multiverse in human form
    Chiselled by experience
    Sharing a pilgrimage
    Enriches the Source
    From light to Light
    Returning
    Reborn
    Home

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  21. We forgot to add the poem earlier, so here it is…

    Can
    Any
    body love
    The sight of bats
    Dark webbed wings flying
    Beneath the blood red skies
    Cold shivers run down my back
    A sudden warning flashed in mind
    Of tangled hair, tapping on windows
    Dark soul lost asking to enter, to feed…

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  23. sunriseset

    Children grow
    wings, flying high, far–
    in the wake
    we wait for
    yesterday to catch up with
    what they have become

    Sunriseset–
    the pattern of days
    opening
    and closing,
    the inside of the circle
    empties and refills

    Repeating
    our footsteps, echoed,
    mirrored, but
    not the same–
    the outlines rearranging
    beginning to end

    Sunriseset–
    the pattern of days
    opening
    and closing,
    the inside of the circle
    empties and refills

    as always I have art and an explanation
    https://kblog.blog/2019/11/22/sunriseset/

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  24. Another shadorma, I’ll let the raven speak for me
    Crouching low

    she turns with a smile,

    inviting,

    smooth white limb

    encased in mesh, not feathers

    will she fly with me?

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  29. A great photograph, Colleen.

    Here are my two haiku’s:

    Disillusionment,
    in shades of evenings warning
    tells of rains to come
    ***

    Trying to trap a
    reluctant and resistant
    soul, colours life red

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Colleen M. Chesebro is an American Poet who loves crafting paranormal fantasy and magical realism, cross-genre flash fiction, syllabic poetry, and creative nonfiction. Colleen sponsors a weekly syllabic poetry challenge, called Tanka Tuesday, on wordcraftpoetry.com where participants learn how to write traditional and current forms of haiku, senryu, haiga, tanka, gogyohka, tanka prose, renga, solo-renga, haibun, cinquain, Etheree, nonet, and shadorma poetry. Colleen's syllabic poetry has appeared in the Auroras & Blossoms Poetry Journal, and in “Hedgerow, a journal of small poems.” She’s won numerous awards from participating in the Carrot Ranch Rodeo, a yearly flash fiction contest sponsored by carrotranch.com. In 2020, she won first place in the Carrot Ranch Folk Tale or Fable category, with her story called “Why Wolf Howls at the Moon.” Colleen is a Sister of the Fey, where she pursues a pagan path through her writing. When she is not writing, she is reading. She also loves gardening and crocheting old-fashioned doilies into works of art.

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