Category: Poetry

Colleen’s 2019 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 138 #SynonymsOnly #Haiga

“Clear & Nature” are the synonyms but we can’t use them! Boo hoo… So for clear I chose (clean) and Nature: (character.) The photo below is taken from my recent trip to Cromer, Norfolk Coast with my hubby. Mr Seagull’s boat Seagull’s character To clean the ocean of boats And bring them ashore Haiga: The haiku is the most important […]

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Colleen’s 2019 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 137 #SynonymsOnly

3 weeks ago 15 Comments

Word prompts: Kind and shift. For kind, I used breed and shift: transform. The idea for this Tanka came from a passage in my WIP: The Curse of Time Book 2 Golden Healer when Esme (the mirror girl,) tells Amelina (my main protagonist,) about her experience with the shadow men. Could it be a dream or is it real? […]

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Colleen’s 2019 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 136 #PhotoPrompt

4 weeks ago 13 Comments

Who’s blue bike is that? Oh wait, I see your shadow Two bikes and two chairs Two fruit scones, butter and jam Two old friends sit by the light To enter Colleen’s weekly poetry challenge follow the link: Colleen’s 2019 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 136 #PhotoPrompt Buy Book: myBook.to/TheCurseofTime Social Media Links Authors […]

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Colleen’s 2019 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 135

1 month ago 19 Comments

This Tanka was inspired by the beautiful Golden Willow Tree in the botanical gardens in Cambridge which I visit frequently on my lunch hours from work. I wanted to reach for one of its tempting branches but to do so would to risk falling in the water! So charming you are Sweet golden willow bending Longing for water […]

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COLLEEN’S 2019 WEEKLY #TANKA TUESDAY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 134 #SYNONYMSONLY

1 month ago 19 Comments

It’s poet’s choice of words this week. I’m going to have a go at a Shadorma as per the detail on Colleen’s blog: The Shadorma is a poetic form consisting of a six-line stanza (or sestet). Each stanza has a syllable count of three syllables in the first line, five syllables in the second line, three syllables in the third and fourth lines, […]

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Book Review of Devil In The Wind by Frank Prem #Poetry #BlackSaturday #Wildfires

2 months ago 3 Comments

Goodreads Synopsis: Devil In The Wind is an account of catastrophic fire and its immediate aftermath. In this 21st century, the whole world seems to be on fire. America burns. Europe burns. Greece is reeling after its own tragedy of fire. And Australia burns, as it has always done, but now so much more fiercely. In February 2009, wildfires burnt […]

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Colleen’s 2019 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 131 #SynonymsOnly

2 months ago 21 Comments

It’s nice to welcome Colleen back after her break finding and settling in to her new home in Arizona. I’ve missed writing poetry but I’ve been super busy getting feedback back from my early readers and beta readers on my WIP: The Curse of Time Book 2 Golden Healer. The synonyms I’ve chosen for beginning are dawn, and for consume […]

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Carrot Ranch May 9: Flash Fiction Challenge

May 12, 2019 13 Comments

Here’s my daft poem in response to Carrot Ranch’s prompt about aging… AGE – One Letter Short of A Four Letter Word AGE IS ONE LETTER SHORT OF A FOUR LETTER WORD! Desire’s three syllables entwined in kinky Karma Sutra positions, Movement’s six hundred plus muscles belly aching to stop, Career crises simplified, await twin oldies bus pass, plus pensions, Adolescent […]

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COLLEEN’S 2019 WEEKLY #TANKA TUESDAY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 128 #SYNONYMSONLY

March 22, 2019 17 Comments

I think cats and Buddha have a lot to teach us so I wrote this double Tanka poem for Colleen’s poetry challenge. Isn’t Lily the cat gorgeous? Just like Shadow the black cat in my book! I had fun choosing some alternative synonyms for Colleen’s poetry challenge – for Spring I chose Develop, and for Sing – Serenade. Life […]

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Colleen’s 2019 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 125#SynonymsOnly

February 28, 2019 23 Comments

Who better to write about than my lovely dad, Ronald? He has always been my inspiration. I doubt I would ever have become a writer if it hadn’t been for him. Both of my parents are much loved and have had an extraordinary life with many stories to tell. My dad is quite the raconteur! He has been fortunate to […]