Padre was the first to respond this week to Ritu’s fabulous photo. His Mirror Cinquain has been on my mind all week. Where I saw shadows and mystery, Padre saw a normal evening in the suburbs.
Padre, you can pick the photo image for next month’s challenge. Please email me at tankatuesdaypoetry@gmail.com with your photo. Please add any copyright information to go along with the photo. Thanks.
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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16 thoughts on “Reblog: Evening: A Mirror Cinquain | Padre’s Ramblings”
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Beautiful choice 💜
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Sweet, simple, and unpretentious… 😍❤️
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Yes indeed as Colleen says this poem is “so good” 💜
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The beauty of the simple and everyday. Great choice, Colleen and congratulations to Padre
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Thanks, Olga. Beauty is right in front of us! ❤️
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Like a bedtime story!
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Yes! Very nice. ❤️
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Yes, I hadn’t thought of it that way!
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The few words describe an ordinary scene–it’s very ordinariness a sort of simple beauty in itself.
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That’s what I thought too. Sometimes I overthink these images. The mundane is beautiful in it’s simplicity. I feel very zen today. ❤️
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🙂
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Zen is a very good plan to be.
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*place
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Well said!
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Beautifully written poem to describe what is repeated daily across the world.
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The simplicity of the poem is what really grabbed me. Thanks so much, Michelle. ❤
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