TankaTuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 273, 5/10/22, #SpecificForm

Sally Cronin has selected  the butterfly cinquain as this week's form.The Butterfly Cinquain is an unrhymed, nine-line syllabic poem with 2-4-6-8-2-8-6-4-2 syllables per line.  summersun bakes land downhard and brown to sizzlesweaty precipitation beadsdrizzlemelting sweet icy popsiclesi lick in ecstasycalories groani smile Via: https://wordcraftpoetry.com/2022/05/10/tankatuesday-poetry-challenge-no-273-specificform/?amp=1

Lost Summer

verdant bloomblushes to green allwith envy. withered leavesawait burialin parched grave

NaPoWriMo 2022/TankaTuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 270 #PhotoPrompt

This challenge explores Ekphrastic poetry, inspired by visual art or photographs. D. L. Finn provided the photo for this month’s challenge I have attempted a Garland Cinquain Harmony blue surfinfinite depthsteeming with so much life-symbiotic vibrant clusterblossoms deep calmits all aroundplayfully gambollingdiving into deep dark depths yetundrowned freedomabounds unchainedwaltzing to nature's rhythmresonating harmonic notesgentle fearlessto speak their mindsmelodious whistlingonly…

NaPoWriMo 2022

Today's challenge is to write about something big.I have chosen to write a haiku on sun and vast seas that stretch in an endless horizon flaming orbmeets blue wide surf nowtangerine

TANKATUESDAY Weekly #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 266, 3/22/22, #THEMEPROMPT

Donna Matthews from last month’s challenge picked this month’s theme as FIRE &  WATER I have attempted a Tanka Prose Strange are Nature's Ways Winters are a distant memory in spring that is no more.The pleasant days that thaw the icy dew sizzle and have become incredibly hot.The cuckoo that sang each year is heard no more…

Spring(a haiku)

spring sizzlessun kissed lands parched yearnblissful bloom

Tiny tendril-a haiku

tendrils curlon ringed bark blithelydance in storms

Fallen free( a haiku)

Image @ https://unsplash.com/photos/ek_eJTrK8BY icy chillenthrallls leafy veins-fallen free

TankaTuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 256, Colleen’s Specific Form: haiku

tangerinetrail to distant dreams-new hope dawns

Cobbled Clutter(a senryu)

weary soul trudges clanging on cobbled clutter of life's edifice