Ponder the season
with crispy leaves underfoot
of gold and copper
when you tiptoe cross the grass
to an autumn pleasure dome
Category: Poetry
Full Tanka Day Seven
I’ve reached the end of the weekly writing challenge with day 7, it’s been fun and surprisingly easy. I’ve used a photo from each month from March, to inspire me and last night I took this one for September.
Echinacea
you’re the Daisy of daisies
purple coneflower
guide me safely through winter
most splendid and healing plant
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Full Tanka Day Six
Standing all alone
in your bright new uniform
magenta and white
expectant, ready to shine
darling child of the meadow
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Full Tanka Day Five
Hey, begonia
who wouldn’t be cheered by you?
such beautiful blooms
orange as orange can be
maybe you fell from heaven
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Full Tanka Day Four
Purple for pleasure
clamouring so tall and proud
neat, tidy, formal
with thousands of stars apiece
a garden constellation
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Lazy Poets Thursday Full Tanka Day 3
A ruffle of blue
like some bird of paradise
one of springtime’s joys
lighting up an evening stroll
night scented wisteria
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Full Tanka Day 2
In April we find you
bold and daring as can be
such brightly coloured
thrusting and lusting ladies
flirtatious salsa dancing
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Full Tanka Day One
Ben Huberman at the WordPress Daily Post says,
What’s better than a perfect bite? Two perfect bites.
If haiku is the sashimi of poetry, tanka is its heartier hand roll cousin.
Traditional tanka contain five lines instead of haiku’s three, and 31 syllables instead of 17. The structure is that of a haiku followed by two additional lines of seven syllables each: 5-7-5-7-7. (Many contemporary poets take liberties with the specifics, and you can, too.)
So as I post a haiku or a tanka (if I’m not too lazy) every Thursday, I thought I’d have a try at a whole weeks worth for the Weekly Writing Challenge.
I plan to use a season of flowers as my theme, one for each month from March to September.
White magnolia
chic supermodel of spring
delicate petals
such effortless elegance
gracing gardens of England
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Lazy Poet’s Thursday Poem
Petals of loss
Have we forgotten?
So it would appear.
One hundred years and no lessons learnt.
How many images of atrocity
must we see before enough is enough?
Mankind has battled since time began,
does that mean we must until the end?
And womankind, we’re not without guilt,
warrior queens were not legend but manifest.
Leave battles to the playground
To the realms of history, herstory,
fiction and myth.
Cease now,
while a poppy still blooms on this earth.
Lazy Poet’s Thursday Haiku
Seaside Flora
blue sky framed teasels
parched dry in the coastal breeze
stately perfection
Lucid Gypsy 