vernal equinox
primordial ooze
swells with new life, emerging
seed to root to shoot
to bloom, serenaded by
bird trills and honey bee hums
~kat
A Tanka for Colleen Chesebro’s Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge – Synonyms Only, Prompt words: Spring – emerge, ooze, swell, vernal equinox, root and Sing – trill, serenade, hum.
Autumn Rhapsody
she weeps fallow fronds,
flushed crimson, vermillion,
sienas, ochres,
yearning for cool eventide’s
frosted plunge, and dreams of spring
~kat
A Tanka this week for Colleen Chesebro’s Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge, Synonyms Only, Prompt Words: Fall (Autumn, weep, plunge) and Try (yearn, dream).
there’s a subtle shift
a cool stream mingling amidst
sultry zephyr blasts
midsummer days challenged by
autumn crisp staking its claim
~kat
A Tanka for Colleen Chesebro’s Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge – Synonyms Only for the prompt words: Change (shift) and Defy (challenge, stake)
the fool
poor old chap is down
in the dumps, in a blue funk
with a chip on his
shoulder…once upon a time
he walked on air, flying high
~kat
A Tanka for Colleen Chesebro’s Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge using synomyms only of the words Happy & Morose. I found a lovely collection of idioms that were listed as synonyms for these words. Of course I had to use them all! Well, most of them anyhow. What fun this week’s challenge was!
Happy: walking on air, flying high,
Morose: down in the dumps, in a blue funk, chip on the shoulder
Flights of Fancy
our ancestors might
fancy flight a miracle
which makes me wonder
what curious future device
might we deem impossible
~kat
A Tanka poem for Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge, prompt words (synonyms only): Beliefs: fancy & Strange: curious.
