COLLEEN’S 2020 WEEKLY #TANKA TUESDAY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 232, #SPECIFICFORM

Colleen M. Chesebro29 Jun 202123 Aug 2022Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenges#Abhanga, #Badger Hexastich, #Chōka, #Cinquain and it’s variations, #Diatelle, #Etheree, #Gogyohka, #Haibun, #Haiga, #Haiku, #Nonet, #Renga, #Senryu, #Shadorma, #Solo-Renga, #Tanka, #TankaProse, #The Kerf, Create your own form, Syllabic Poetry, Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenges, Tanku

WELCOME TO TANKA TUESDAY!

It’s the fifth Tuesday of the month! This is our chance to work with a specific syllabic poetry form. But let’s do something different this time.

First, choose your favorite syllabic poetry form. Write your poem.

Next, give your poem some different characteristics to make it something different. You can change the syllable count, rhyme scheme (add or get rid of it), anything you want to create a new form. Write this poem.

Give your new syllabic poetry form a name.

My 3-5-3 haiku example:

keening winds—
summer rainstorm songs
flies cluster

I’m going to create a haiku (3-5-3) and a tanka (5-7-5-7-7 with an end rhyme of a, a, b, b, a) together and call it a tanku. Rhyme scheme (x, x, x, a, a, b, b, a). No title. I did a quick search… I didn’t find this form listed. Maybe it is an unlikely combination?

keening winds—
summer rainstorm songs
flies cluster
thunder scolds the sky
while cold pelting raindrops fly
snagging leaves from trees,
earth mother brought to her knees
storm's rage rises in July
 
© 2021 Colleen M. Chesebro

For Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge, use one of the forms from the Poetry Challenge Cheat Sheet for inspiration:

Tanka Tuesday Cheat Sheet

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.

writerlywords.com/syllables/

A simple yet very powerful syllable counter for poems and text which will count the total number of syllables and number of syllable per line for poems like haikus, limericks, and more. This site does the hard work for you.

**THE NEW RULES**

Write a poem using a form of your choice from the cheat sheet. Follow my instructions above!
Post it on your blog.
Include a link back to the challenge in your post. (copy the URL: https:// address of this post into your post).
Copy your link into the Mr. Linky below (underlined with a hyperlink). You might have to delete your previous entry.
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, #Renga, #Solo-Renga, #Haibun, #Chōka, #Cinquain and it’s variations, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Badger Hexastich, #Abhanga, & the optional forms: #Diatelle, #The Kerf

Now, have fun and create some new poetry!

Published by Colleen M. Chesebro

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. View more posts