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A Walk Across The Brooklyn Bridge
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 – July Covid-19 P.A.D. – Day 20 “A Walk (blank) – “Complete title and write poem.” Sunny Spring breezes are pleasing company as we begin our walk from Brooklyn to Manhattan, snapping photos all the way. … Continue reading
Provisions of Mother Nature
Written for: Poetic Asides April 2020 PAD Challenge – Day 24 Write a nature poem. I bubble into eddying bays, wandered lonely as a cloud of easy wind and downy flake, spreading sugar over lakes. April comes in like an … Continue reading
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Tagged Cento form, Spring, Winter, Written for Challenge, written from other poets
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Sevenling . . . three robins
Written for: Poetic Asides Countdown to Challenge: T-minus 7 – Write a short poem. For: Poetic Bloomings2 – InForm Poet – Sevenling “The first three lines should contain an element of three. It could be three connected or contrasting statements, … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, flowers, hope, Sevenling, short poems, Spring, trees
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Spring haiku
Written for: Poetics Aside Prompt 520 – Write a Spring poem. doubting daffodil raises one petaled ear to feel if spring is here https://www.writersdigest.com/editor-blogs/poetic-asides
Mars
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Haibun Monday – Mars (posted by Frank J. Tassone) “Write a haibun that references Mars” As a child, I was intrigued by Mars purely for the color–a red planet. If there were people living … Continue reading
cherry blossom renga
Written for: Carpe Diem Tan Renga Wednesday (hineri) #15 Cherry Tree in Full Bloom “This week I will give you the second stanza, the two-lined one, of the Tan Renga. You have to create the first stanza, the three-lined (hokku), … Continue reading
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Tagged bloom, cherry blossoms, hokku, Spring, tan renga
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Sighs of Spring
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 – InForm Poet: Tanka “The Tanka is a Japanese poem of five lines. The first and third lines are composed of five syllables, and the others contain seven. In Japanese, tanka is often written in one … Continue reading
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Tagged colors, lily pads, lotus blossoms, Spring, tanka
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Should A Spring Day Arise
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 – InForm Poet – Octometer “Octameter is a poem made up of 16 lines divided into two stanzas of 8 lines each. Each line has a syllable count of 5. The set rhyme scheme is: a/b/c/d/e/d/f/d … Continue reading
Tease of Autumn
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 – InForm Poet – Carpe Diem “Write your poem celebrating the day or celebrate the arrival of Autumn.” Spring jumped in for a second round, elbowing autumn out of the way. Today I see crinkled paper … Continue reading
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Tagged autumn, change, colors, overlapping, Spring
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Swept Away
Written for: Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #89 – Extreme Haibun . . . Rain An extreme haibun is, as you maybe remember, a haibun is prose and poetry together, a kind of symbiosis so to say. I will give you … Continue reading
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Tagged boat, flowers, Haibun, neighborhood, rain, Spring
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