Colleen’s 2020 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 160 #SynonymsOnly

Posted on January 14, 2020 by

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WELCOME TO TANKA TUESDAY!

It’s the second week of the month! That means Synonyms ONLY!

Here are your two words:

“CALM & PRESENT”

PLEASE support the other poets by visiting blogs and leaving comments. Peer reviews help poets perfect their writing craft. Remember… sharing is caring.

For Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge, you can write your poem in the forms defined on the Poetry Challenge Cheatsheet:

Poetry Form Cheatsheet

This tutorial will help poets learn the different forms to use for Colleen’s Weekly Syllabic Poetry Challenge. Image by Thought Catalog from Pixabay HAIKU IN ENGLISH: 5/7/5, 3/5/3, or 2/3/2 s…

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

Every Tuesday I’ll post the challenge early enough so everyone can see it. Remember, there will be no recap. You have a full week to complete your poetry. Only syllabic poetry: Haiku, Senryu, Haiga, Tanka, Haibun, Cinquain, Etheree, Nonet, Shadorma

The rules are simple. Write your poetry on your blog.

Do a link-back by placing the HTTPS:// address of the challenge post into your post. ALSO, please copy your poem and add it to the comments. If you created a Haiga, let us know in the comments with a link to your post. Now, all of the poetry ends up on the challenge post in one place.

Follow the schedule listed below:

Don't forget

I will visit your blog, comment, and TWEET your POETRY. 

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

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

Now, have fun and write some poetry!


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101 Comments on “Colleen’s 2020 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 160 #SynonymsOnly”

  1. Lovely prompt as always Colleen and I will post tomorrow but here is my Etheree – I have chosen ‘Serene and Deliver’

    Etheree – On the Wind

    Sit
    serene
    with wise thoughts
    and let them drift,
    like smoke from a fire,
    upwards in to the winds
    to be borne around the earth
    in search of others of like minds,
    who will feel the breeze upon their cheeks
    and absorb the message you deliver.

    ©Sally Cronin 2020

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    • Trent, this Senryu is perfect and follows the rules! The last sentence is funny and you know, I thought of a cat instantly! They do have that attitude, don’t they?
      Just to show you how easy the next level in this form is, I’ve changed it to the 3/5/3 format:

      So serene
      a gift to the world
      cat-itude

      Albert the cat sounds lovely! 😀

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  14. Dancers ~ double etheree: https://scvincent.com/2020/01/15/dancers-3/

    Strange forms on the edge of reality

    Weaving patterns of past mystery

    Tantalising threads repeating

    Spiral across the ages

    Unveil the tapestry

    Unravelling time

    Ancient portals

    Opening

    Open

    Hearts

    Now

    At peace

    Silent stone

    Voiceless wisdom

    Whispers to the wind

    Gifts of understanding

    From the well of memory

    Half-forgotten yet remembered

    Wraiths of a past that seeded our birth

    Dance like wildflowers in a summer breeze

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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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