WELCOME TO TANKA TUESDAY!
It’s the third week of the month! Time for a #PhotoPrompt
Aishwarya, aka, Kitty from Kitty’s Verses, was my selection from last month’s challenge. She has provided the photo for this month’s challenge. Remember, don’t just describe what is in the photo. Engage your senses and work with implied metaphors to make your poetry sing!


On the Monday before the next challenge, I will pick a poem from this week’s challenge and share it on my blog. Whoever I pick will choose the photo for next month’s challenge! Email your selection to me at tankatuesdaypoetry@gmail.com a week before the challenge. Thank you!
For Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge, you can write your poem in the forms defined on the Poetry Challenge Cheatsheet (click the link below):

Click HERE
Here are some impressive sites that will help you write your poetry and count syllables – Please Use Them
This site even has a link so you can install the extension on Google Chrome.
For Synonyms and Antonyms. When your word has too many syllables, find one that works.
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.

THE *NEW* RULES
- Write a poem using a form of your choice: Haiku, Senryu, Haiga, Tanka, Gogyohka, Haibun, Tanka Prose, Cinquain, and its variations, Etheree, Nonet, and Shadorma.
- Post it on your blog.
- Include a link back to the challenge in your post. (copy the https:// address of this post into your post).
- Copy your link into the Mr. Linky below (underlined with a hyperlink).
- Please click the small checkbox on Mr. Linky about data protection.
- Read and comment on some of your fellow poets’ work.
- Like and leave a comment below if you choose to do so.
The screenshot below shows what Mr. Linky looks like inside. Add your name, and the URL of your post. Click the box about the privacy policy (It’s blue). As everyone adds their links to Mr. Linky, you can view the other submissions by clicking on the Mr. Linky link on the challenge post. All the links will show in the order of posting.


Follow the schedule listed below:


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, #Gogyohka, #Tanka, #TankaProse, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma
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Inspiring prompt this week, Colleen…
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Kitty selected our poetic inspiration. 😍
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Lets see what we can do with it, Colleen!
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Excellent! 😍❤️
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Hi Colleen,
Thank you for the photo. The picture is courtesy Snapwire from Pexels.
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Great. I’ll add that to the caption. ❤️
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🙂
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Hello Colleen
Please find my submission, A Senryu, for this week’s picture prompt.
Thanks for the wonderful picture prompt.
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Kitty picked an excellent photo. Glad you’re here!
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Beautiful photo!
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Great poetic possibilities! 😍
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Hi thank you for the lovely photo prompt Kitty. Good luck everyone, and thank you Colleen as always 💜
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You’re so welcome. ❤️
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💜🌹🌹
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Hi Colleen. i really like the photo “Kitty” provided. Here is my take on it: https://trentsworldblog.wordpress.com/2020/08/18/back-or-forward-tanka/
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It’s a great photo. ❤️
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Agreed.
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A fabulous image thanks to Kitty… kept me busy this afternoon and will go out on Saturday as usual…thanks to both of you for the inspiration..♥
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Excellent. Looking forward to the read, Sally. ❤
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Hi Colleen, I actually wrote this with Aishwarya. We were midway a syllabic and prose collaboration when I saw this week’s challenge.
Hope you like this, we combined cinquains to make 3 butterfly cinquains, and some prose.
https://wordeologist.wordpress.com/2020/08/19/destinys-rails-a-cinquain-and-prose-collaboration/
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How cool! I’ll enjoy it, I’m sure. ❤️
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💕💛
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Here’s a tanka for Kitty’s evocative photoprompt. Thank you Colleen for Tanka Tuesdays
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You’re welcome. ❤
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Ooh, very inspiring photo. Thanks, Kitty and Colleen for the prompt. Here’s my response https://www.lisathomsonlive.com/sharing-a-little-poem-senryu-photoprompt/
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Hello Lisa! ❤
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While I can’t see the trains and tracks directly – I can hear local trains day and night. Mostly cargo.
I think there is a different toot for each train? Or a language of toots …
“Train whistles are used to communicate with other railroad workers on a train or in the yard. Specific combinations of long and short whistles have specific meanings. They are used to pass instructions, as a safety signal, and to warn of impending movements of a train. … (See also Train horn (Common horn signals).)”
There’s a chart here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_horn
Here is: phantom flights of fancy
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I was instantly on a train with a one way ticket looking at this. ❤
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I knew you would love it! Think of the possibilities! 😍
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❤
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Thanks for the great photo Aishwarya.
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Great photo Colleen!
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Kitty found a good one for sure! ❤
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Toot toot! https://dgkayewriter.com/colleen-chesebros-poetry-challenge-word-craft-prose-poetry/ ❤
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I did another shadorma sequence using the new editor for the first time–just trial and error. 😏
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Yay! I like the editor, but I know change is hard. It was for me at first. It’s much better now than it was almost two years ago. ❤
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😀
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Reblogged this on Where Genres Collide Traci Kenworth YA Author & Book Blogger for all Genres as well as craft books and commented:
Here’s to another week! This a photo prompt!
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Thanks, Traci! You rock! ❤️
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Happy Friday, Sis! Always wishing you the best. Thanks for another poetry challenge. Have a great weekend!
https://vashtiqvega.wordpress.com/2020/08/21/poetry-friday-photo-prompt-8/ 😀 ❤ xo
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Thanks, Sis. You too! ❤
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Thank you Kitty for the terrific prompt and here is my Haiku Sequence and also with Mr. Linky…https://smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2020/08/22/smorgasbord-poetry-colleen-chesebros-weekly-tanka-challenge-photoprompt-haikusequence-tracks-by-sally-cronin/
Thanks Colleen ♥
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Thanks, Sally ❤️
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Thank you Kitty and Colleen for such a lovely prompt!
Pingback @ https://indishe.wordpress.com/2020/08/22/colleens-2020-weekly-tanka-tuesday-poetry-challenge-no-191-photoprompt/
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You’re welcome. ❤️
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