homecoming
soaking the treetops
aflame in red, amber, gold,
cool rain in autumn
cannot quench the fading leaves
but softs the loam to tend them
~kat
A Tanka for Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday.
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apple cider sunset
apple cider sunset
leaves droop drearily on exposed branches
tinged amber from the sun’s fierce fading,
fire-red on the horizon at dusk of day,
the autumnal equinox is upon us, crisp and cool,
apple cider, cinnamon steeped, nips my tongue
~kat
A Gogyohka for Colleen Cheesebro’s Tanka Tuesday Challenge.
dark days
dark days
darkness enshrouded
moon fading slowly to black
bodes fury at dawn
As if we needed more heartbreak…
two hundred thousand souls now gone
a stalwart prophetess moves on
now when there is so much at stake
with riots in the streets, earthquakes,
fires, floods, hurricanes…can’t look!
The year god looked away, forsook
our selfish prayers, our hateful ways,
our sins exposed on full display,
our end assured by hook or crook.
-kat
Combining Ronovan’s challenge today:
Haiku Challenge Words – Fury/Slow
Décima Challenge Word “Look” (c-line rhyme) – Rhyme Scheme: abbaaccddc/8 syllables per line.
alternative mentality
alternative mentality
science warned of global warming
hoped the world would heed their call
now ancient forests burn and fall,
tempests rage, o’er oceans, swarming,
plagues, death, riots in the streets
and through it all, our leader tweets
nothing to see here, all is great
it’s all a hoax, you’ll see, just wait…
our only hope is his defeat
~kat
For today’s challenge at Ronovanwrites, write a décima where the word FALL must be one of the B line words. Then the other B line(s) word(s) must rhyme with FALL.
A Décima is a 10-line poem with 8 syllables per line. The rhyme pattern is: abbaaccddc. Further study of this form indicates that the subject matter of a Décima tends to be more socially conscious than some poems, taking on topics such as philosophy, politics, dogma, and religion. It can also be in the form of satire, criticism or insulting to an enemy/opponent in a situation.
Sometimes you break the rhyme into two stanzas using the following rhyme pattern.
abba/ccddc
I Don’t Get It – A Décima
I Don’t Get It
Please tell me, how do you defend
the vile actions of the prez
the awful things he does and says
while guzzling down his koolaid blend
of hateful rhetoric and then
you want to give him four more years
to level all that we hold dear
and sell our souls to oligarchs,
do you not see his evil heart?
That you are lost for good, I fear.
~kat
This little poetry form gives me license to vent on the politics of the day. Honestly, I just don’t get it. 😳
For today’s challenge at Ronovanwrites, write a décima where the word BLEND must be one of the A line words. Then the other A line(s) word(s) must rhyme with BLEND.
A Décima is a 10-line poem with 8 syllables per line. The rhyme pattern is: abbaaccddc. Further study of this form indicates that the subject matter of a Décima tends to be more socially conscious than some poems, taking on topics such as philosophy, politics, dogma, and religion. It can also be in the form of satire, criticism or insulting to an enemy/opponent in a situation.
Sometimes you break the rhyme into two stanzas using the following rhyme pattern. abbaac/cddc.
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