Tag Archives: Dance

in the meadow

Posted on July 18, 2018 by

Written for:  Carpe Diem Crossroads #13 – Chilly Coolness “Welcome at a new episode of our CDHK feature “Crossroads”, the feature in which I challenge you to create a so called “fusion”-haiku from two haiku and to create a Troiku with … Continue reading →

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paulownia tree

Posted on July 8, 2018 by

Written for:  Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #39 Troiku Challenge “a distant mountain” “In this Troiku Challenge you have to create first a so called “fusion”-haiku and than you have to create a Troiku (more on Troiku you can find in the … Continue reading →

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Flamboyant Flamingoes

Posted on March 31, 2018 by

Written for:  Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads – Fireblossom Friday:  Poetic Imagery There are a lot of things that go into the construction of a good poem. The sheer beauty of the words and the way the sound when written … Continue reading →

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Twilight Dance

Posted on October 5, 2017 by

Written for:  Quickly – “Dumpster Dive” “So here’s your challenge (bet you thought I’d never get to it): Worry at some of your false starts and et cets, and find 10 lines or line fragments that stand alone (grammar, concept, … Continue reading →

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Stacking Logs

Posted on September 19, 2017 by

Written for:  Poems of Garden Gnomes “And so, this week marks another “end of Summer”. But before we pay full homage to the Fall season, let us have one last fling – one last dance with this Summer. I ask … Continue reading →

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Tantalizing Tango

Posted on August 18, 2017 by

Written for:  Imaginary Gardens With Live Toads Today’s challenge is to express dance through poetry. Pick a photo, a quote, video…Pick whatever inspires you. Write a new poem. “Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the … Continue reading →

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Dancing Girl

Posted on August 15, 2017 by

Written for:  dVerse Poets Pub – Poetics:  Musical Muse  (posted by Mish) Today for Poetics, I am asking you to choose some lyrics, preferably one line from a favorite song and grow your own poem from it. You are not … Continue reading →

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gust of wind

Posted on May 2, 2017 by

Written for:  Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge Month (Second Edition), May 2017 #1 on a gust of wind “For this first episode I have chosen a haiku crafted by myself and your task is to create the second (two-lined stanza, … Continue reading →

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Dance

Posted on December 13, 2016 by

Written for:  Carpe Diem #1091, Sonata in E, Op. 1/3 by Cecelia Maria Barthelemon fragile beauty caresses the young flowers a blue butterfly © Chèvrefeuille (our host) Here is my attempt: they dance to spring whirling and weaving through trees … Continue reading →

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Completing A Haiku

Posted on November 11, 2016 by

Written for:  Carpe Diem “Make the Haiku Complete”-encore, just for fun The goal of this feature is to make the haiku complete which I am giving you. This time I made it a little bit more difficult, because I will give … Continue reading →

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