my daughter, she slipped her hand in mine
and said to me, I hear your voice
in songs I have never heard
maybe you sang to me
in a lullaby
calming my curls
as I lay
on you
ma
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Mindfills for Colleen’s Tanka Tuesdays and for you my D
Tag: Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday
we are us ~ a nonet
showering into our searching souls
skies and stars from aeons ago
stream lights into me and you
silver flares all aglow
searing truths of love
songs from the runes
so we know
we are
us
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Mindfills for Colleen Cheesebro’s Tanka Tuesdays – ekphrastic challenge MLM‘s lucky dip – nonet
mist ~ a haiku
mist on the moors
weaving webs of haunted tales
~ verdant in still life
Mindfills for ….Ronovan Writes Haiku challenge – weave & web
Colleen Cheesebro’s Tanka Tuesday – synonyms only – morass & green (moor & verdant)
sea shell ~ a haiku
sea shell washes up
crashing wave pauses to hear
life’s voices parcelled
Mindfills for Colleen’s Tanka Tuesdays – Poet’s choice
summer ~ a tendril
summer drums raindrops
sprinkling staccato sunshine
winds whistle awhile
~
rice fields sway
summer drums raindrops
sprinkling staccato sunshine
winds whistle awhile
wet earth perfumes nature’s song
making creatures dance
barefooted
~
mindfills for
Colleen Cheesebro’s Tanka Tuesdays – specific poetry form – Colleen asks us to start with a known form of syllabic poetry and create a new form. I started with a haiku. The new form that evolved from there has a 3/5/7/5/7/5/3 syllable count and can be read from top to bottom and from bottom to top. And I’m calling it a tendril (makihige)
blue sky ~ a haiku
blue sky blushes pink
drenching dusk in desire
~ first light wakes smiling
Mindfills for Colleen Cheesebro’s Tanka Tuesdays – synonyms only ~ dawn & twilight
early ~ a haiku
image credit ~ Vidya Shankararaman
early morning knocks
leaves dew drops and word from you
in my letter-box
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Mindfills for
Colleen Cheesebro’s Tanka Tuesdays – Poets choice
My attempt at Brazilian haiku – a variation of the haiku which originated in Brazil, a haiku which rhymes in a set pattern
x x x x A
x B x x x x B
x x x x A
Oh May! ~ a haibun
Oh May! Our old wicker basket sits skewed, a bottle of red tilting the scales in favour of lightbulbs going off under my skin as your laughter booms and scatters my once lucid thoughts. The full moon beams bright, bathing the night and us in mulled vanilla.
We lie back, staring at the stars, strewn, along with the contents of the last midnight picnic in our wild windswept garden. Tomorrow your journey into another life begins. Tomorrow you leave. “Those rose bushes need trimming Sweetie,” you say. I say Hmm…
let me stare at you
my sweet flower-moon of May
next month, you’ll be June’s
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Mindfills for
dVerse Haibun Monday hosted by Frank Tassone – Flower moon
FOWC lucid
Colleen Cheesebro’s Tanka Tuesdays– travel/journeys
in esse ~ a haiku
seasons shift slightly
pink petals quiver open
new worlds in esse
Colleen Cheesebro’s Tanka Tuesdays – synonyms only – Life and move (esse & shift) & Cee’s FOTD
seraphic ~ a senryu
her seraphic smile
curling under a canopy
of silent scars
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Mindfills of s.s.
Colleen Cheesebro’s Tanka Tuesdays – haiku or senryu
Eugi’s weekly prompt – canopy
