Ruth, I’ve selected you to pick the syllables for next month’s challenge! Please email me at tankatuesdaypoetry@gmail.com with your two words a week before the synonyms only challenge. Have fun and pick some great words.
Ruth wrote a perfect Gogyohka poem featured below. Notice how she wrote with breathy phrases. Please click the link below and stop by for a visit.
The words are love & harmony. My first attempts at writing a GOGYOHKA poem. I chose to use synonyms of love and harmony but to express those ideas negatively.
Adoration Becomes dull Tranquility gone No respect Divorce
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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Oh wow!! Thank you! I’m honored! 😎😀
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You did a fabulous job. ❤
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❤️
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Wow Ruth that’s brilliant 💜
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She did so well on this! Thanks, Willow. ❤️
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It was perfect 💜
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Thank you!
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Wonderful!
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She did a great job for sure. ❤
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Fabulous
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Thanks, Sally ❤️
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You want me to pick two words, right? Not syllables?🙃
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Yes. You pick the two words and everyone picks their own syllables. Yay! ❤
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I like Ruth’s Gogyohka very much. The birth and death of a marriage in five breaths.
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Yes! Isn’t that amazing?
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