Tanka Tuesday

  • Your poetry writing invitation this week is to choose kigo words from a PAST season, OR work with the kigo words and phrases from the Early Cold challenge HERE.
  • You choose the form, and you choose the past season, and the winter kigo words. You must use at least one kigo word in your poem.* 
  • *Remember, if you write a haibun or a haiku, the kigo word is required in the haiku.

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hawks soaring above

skirt evening thunderstorms

wind chimes sound warnings

the predator loops meadows

creatures scurry to burrows

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24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry Challenge, No. 17, 1/16/24, Part III: Early Cold (January 5 – 20) Shokan 小寒 – Poet’s Choice

17 thoughts on “Tanka Tuesday

  1. Cheryl, this is nature in motion!

    The imagery of hawks soaring above, the approach of evening thunderstorms, and the sounding wind chimes… I get such a sense of both grace and foreboding…

    ~David

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    1. Finally back to normal, whatever that is😀. Hope you get tho WP problems solved. All of their sickening, disgusting ads interspersed with our works is the worst, and they are certainly making money.

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