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| | | | | Seen when stopped at lights, felt fitting for today Pick Your Own - Tanka Prose I drove out early today, to find a space in the shade, to walk with the coolness of the tall trees. An unusual blast of heat, swept across the sea to meet our island. We have had no fires fuelled,... | |
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| | | | | Its time for Colleen Chesebro's Tuesday Tanka Challenge. Colleen said:"This week, let's do something different. Using the kigo words from last week's postHERE, or from thesummer(Northern Hemisphere) orwinter(Southern Hemisphere) categories from the500 Kigo Words, write one or a series of kimo poems The kimo is a tristich, a poem of three lines with 10/7/6 syllables.... | |
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colleenchesebro.org
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| | | | | Tanka and tanka prose are some of my favorite Japanese forms. I explain both forms in detail in my book, Word Craft: Prose & Poetry. The earliest form of tanka was called a waka. (Sorry for the personal advertisement). Tanka prose is written in the 5-7-5-7-7 or short-long-short-long-long five line syllable structure. Tanka prose always... | |
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wordsandcoffeewriting.com
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| | | You ask how I know "who is who"today as we page through countless baby picturesIt's easy to differentiatethe expressions you three make,your homegrown fixturesBut would I be lying if I saidwhat gives it away is my head,my lash-less eyes and slow gestures I wrote this poem for the Wea've Written Weekly prompt #143 at the... | ||