TankaTuesday Weekly #Poetry Challenge No. 247, #SynonymsOnly

Willow Willers from last month’s challenge chose the two words for this month: Twilight & Hue My synonyms are Ebb and Tint. I have written a Double Inverted Nonet fromplacidblue expansesilvery surfrolls in crests and troughsin symphonic rhythmsplashing on the cobbled shoresmany tints gleaned from Nature's loreonly to ebb and take back some more eroding stratified…

TANKATUESDAY Weekly #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 244 #EKPHRASTIC #PHOTOPROMPT

Image Credit: https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item/66272 Merril D. Smith selected the image this week. It’s a lithograph and you can read more about it HERE Redemption(Tanka Prose) Today's world has forgotten the spirit of compassion. What motivates us is self interest and an endless avarice to seek more. We forget all those who have loved and nurtured us for we consider…

One Liner Wednesday

Via :https://lindaghill.com/2021/09/22/one-liner-wednesday-just-a-quote/

TANKATUESDAY WEEKLY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 243, #SYNONYMSONLY

Ruth, from RuthKlein’s Scribbles, has selected words: Family & Peace My synonyms are clan and love I have written an Abhanga. Love: A Requiem times strange now we live inclan of near and dear onesblood ties yet love outrunseach to his own show of lifetime charadesstoic coldness aboundsself interests compoundtrue love no more Via :…

Thursday Thrum(a haiku)

Life's willows bare in harsh blizzards hope to bloom

One liner Wednesday

Areservoir of memories fading with time splash tales of life lived Via: https://lindaghill.com/2021/08/11/one-liner-wednesday-grammar-matters/

The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS July 24, 2021

Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “color/colour.” Colours of life fade to tell a tale, Tales of irridescent joy, Shaded with teary tales, Dotted with dewy drops. Colours variegated, splattered, Colours merged to paint something new, Dull and dreary fringed with fiery flames, Subtle hued often dashed with dancing shades, A melange of…

#TANKATUESDAY WEEKLY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 234, #SYNONYMSONLY

My synonyms for Green and Morass are lush and labyrinth. I have experimented with a new form,the Cinquetun. This verse form was created by E. Ernest Murrell.The Cinquetun is a hexastich, a poem in 6 lines with 8/6/10/6/8/2 syllables each. The rhyme scheme is axbaxb, x being unrhymed. tangled in labyrinth of life wisps of…

Thursday Thrum- a dawn ( a haiku)

Each day is the harbinger of new tidings, a time to chart fresh courses and live myriad moments. golden shaft peeps through dark veiled clouds- new hope dawns

The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS June 26, 2021

"Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “up/down.” Use one, use them both, but try to put one in your first sentence. Bonus points if you use the other in your last sentence." Hold your heartache up to the light, For the world to see how your heart beats with life, Despite how…