WELCOME TO TANKA TUESDAY!

This challenge explores Ekphrastic poetry, inspired by visual art or photographs. Lisa from TaoTalk, provided the photo for this month’s challenge:

Lisa said she took this image at the Felt Mansion (western Michigan) in 2020. With Halloween just around the corner, the stark imagery in this photo sets a mood. Let’s see if you can capture the mood in your syllabic poetry. Use the photo as your inspiration!

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Write your poem using a syllabic form from the cheat sheet or from the poetscollective.org/poetryforms. Here is more information on how to write an Ekphrastic poem: How Do You Write an Ekphrastic Poem.

“Ekphrastic poems exist to respond to a piece of art critically, analytically, and reverentially.”

Ekphrastic poetry explained

On the Monday before the next challenge, I will select a poem from this week’s challenge to feature on the Monday recap. That poet will then choose the piece of artwork or a photograph (credits included) for next month’s challenge! Email your selection to me at Colleen@wordcraftpoetry.com, a week before the challenge. Thank you.

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Here are some sites that will help you write your poetry and count syllables:

How Many Syllables

A simple yet 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. (Be careful, sometimes this site is off in the count. Double check your syllables. (SodaCoffee.com/syllables shows a 404 page).

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.

THE RULES

• Write your choice of a syllabic poem from the cheat sheet or from the poetscollective.org/poetryforms.
• 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:

Upcoming #TankaTuesday Prompt Poets

 💜 November Specific Form: Reena

💚 October Photo Prompt: Lisa

💛 October Theme Prompt: Anita

So, who wants to have fun and write some syllabic poetry?