A Shadorma (3/5/3/3/7/5) for Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge. Today’s Prompt: Poet’s Choice, following Colleen’s suggestion to give thanks this December as the year draws to an end.
in the end
compassion prevailed
but only
by a thread
history in the making’s
ours for the taking
Also tried a Gogyohka. Each line of a Gogyohka comprises one phrase with a line-break after each phrase or breath.
nightmares
do not linger
in the minds
of daydreamers
roused by the light
And finally a Tanka. 57577
thank you dear strangers
for caring about others
for wearing a mask
to all unlikely heroes
we see you; we won’t forget
~kat
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Tanka Tuesday Trio
the abyss
sometimes the abyss
is a pool of black water,
deep, its skin like glass
capturing reflections of
innocence slipping away
~kat~
A Tanka for Colleen’s Weekly Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge, this week’s ekphrastic photo prompt courtesy of Diana Peach.
homecoming
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.
instinct
instinct
not love, but instinct
keeps the mother bird nested
dawn to dusk, all night
day after day, and instinct
drives the fledglings to leave her
~kat
NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo Challenge Day 6
give a heretic
paint and canvas, art becomes
psychotic, frenzied,
the stuff of nightmares, much like
a Bosch painting, demon play
~kat
A Tanka today for NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo Challenge Day 6. I just could not get into this painting with one disturbing image after the next. So I opted to write about the artist…he was certainly an odd fellow I think!
The challenge: Today’s (optional) prompt is ekphrastic in nature – but rather particular! Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem from the point of view of one person/animal/thing from Hieronymous Bosch’s famous (and famously bizarre) triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights. Whether you take the position of a twelve-legged clam, a narwhal with a cocktail olive speared on its horn, a man using an owl as a pool toy, or a backgammon board being carried through a crowd by a fish wearing a tambourine on its head, I hope that you find the experience deliriously amusing. And if the thought of speaking in the voice of a porcupine-as-painted-by-a-man-who-never-saw-one leaves you cold, perhaps you might write from the viewpoint of Bosch himself? Very little is known about him, so there’s plenty of room for invention, embroidery, and imagination.
The painting featured in the background above is the rather dark section of Hieronymous Bosch’s famous trytych, The Garden of Earthly Delights.
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