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Tag Archives: Winter
“bleak as gravel”
Written for: The Twiglets #223 – “bleak as gravel” Her outlook on life was bleak as the color of gravel. Winter’s blustery bleakness blows through trees, displacing gravel. gray-speckled gravel she sifts it through her fingers bits of her life … Continue reading
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Tagged dull, gravel, Haiku, limerick, Micro-poetry, travel, Winter
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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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blue glass
Written for: Carpe Diem Tan Renga Wednesday #13 Winter Chrysanthemum “Your goal is to create a Tan Renga with a given haiku by adding your two-lined stanza through association. Here is the haiku to work with:” Winter chrysanthemum, Wearing nothing … Continue reading
“first snow”
Written for: Carpe Diem #1797 – New Beginnings . . . First Snow “Today’s prompt is “First Snow”, it’s a classical kigo for Winter and that means you have to try to create a classical haiku or tanka following the … Continue reading
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Tagged children, Haiku, inspired by other haiku, snow, Winter
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Winter Play (solo renga)
Written for: Poetic Asides – Renga Poems At its most basic, the renga is a tanka written by two or more poets. This Japanese form preceded (and inspired) haiku, and its common for poets to link several renga into a … Continue reading
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Tagged children, games, outdoors, solo renga, Winter
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Lace on Wood
Written for: Poetic Asides #507 – “Write a winter poem.” Lace patterns on wood slats. Squall of snow. Barely enough to cover a surface. Warning of Winter’s arrival, a wink. A day begun in sun changes to smears of gray. … Continue reading
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Tagged changeable, patterns, snow, warning, Winter
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In The Front Window
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 – Prompt #272 – Stopping to Window Shop “We’ve all found ourselves caught up in the practice of window shopping at least once in our lives. It is more apparent at this time of year, with … Continue reading
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Tagged child, toys, wagon, window shopping, Winter
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winter trees
Written for: Carpe Diem #1789 – The Winter Trees (Crossroads) The task is to create a “fusion-ku” from the two given haiku and create a Troiku with it, so this episode is a “Crossroads” episode. Here are the two haiku … Continue reading
Snow Diamonds
Written for: Poets United Midweek Motif~Winter (posted by Sumana) “For this week write a winter poem.” “I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you … Continue reading
