Mount Mayon rages
billowing ash, eclipsed, the
cerulean vault,
molten bowels oozing, etching
her passionate apologue
black obsidian
destruction’s cool residue
fire and ice collide
~kat
For Colleen Chesebro’s Tuesday Poetry Challenge, a Tanka-Senryu inspired by nature’s latest rumbling…the Mount Mayon eruptions, and employing synonyms of the prompt words: myth – apalogue and write – etch.
like mercury colliding... 
January 23rd, 2018 at 9:38 pm
Wow! Splendid and all five senses are at play. Love it!! ❤
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January 24th, 2018 at 6:04 am
Thank you Colleen…I had started down a different path earlier, but news of the day sent me on a detour. 😊
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January 24th, 2018 at 7:59 am
Fabulous use of words 🌹💜
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January 24th, 2018 at 8:01 am
Thanks Willow! 😊
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January 24th, 2018 at 8:10 am
🌹💜
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January 24th, 2018 at 12:09 pm
I had to google “apologue.” You gave me a new word to learn!
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January 24th, 2018 at 2:01 pm
I learn too. I’ve always been a thesaurus fan and love the challenges to force me to employ them 🙂
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January 24th, 2018 at 4:38 pm
Wow awesome
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January 24th, 2018 at 5:56 pm
Such a powerful force of nature!
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January 24th, 2018 at 6:05 pm
Such Fierce Beauty! 😎🥀
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January 24th, 2018 at 6:30 pm
Yes indeed. Powerful and ancient!
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February 2nd, 2018 at 6:10 am
Fantastic!
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February 2nd, 2018 at 6:13 am
Thank you! 😊
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