Full Tanka Day One

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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.
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White magnolia

chic supermodel of spring

delicate petals

such effortless elegance

gracing gardens of England

 

http://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_writing_challenge/full-tanka/

 

Photos that talk to each other

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Dialogue is an engaging conversational exchange.

When it comes to photography, dialogue can be perceived as a consensual interaction between two images.

Placed next to each other, each photograph opens up to meanings that weren’t there when viewed alone.

Each composition reveals the photographer’s specific sensitivity to certain content or visual elements.

Says Frederic Biver, an architect and photographer who has created this weeks photo challenge, over at the Daily Post. He has shown  some excellent examples of how to interpret this really difficult challenge. But maybe it isn’t difficult for you?

Here is my attempt. If you have these in your house,

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then there’s a good chance your family will be mentioned here.
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If you can demonstrate a dialogue between images go to http://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_photo_challenge/dialogue/