Tag: Poetry

Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday #TankaTuesday #Poetry

This is my entry for Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday Eternal Love It’s tranquil today, November Rain, June Sunshine, Seasons talk of Love, Strolling side by side – Mists, gusts, Welly boots squelching the earth. Colleen's 2020 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 160 #SynonymsOnly Buy Book: myBook.to/TheCurseofTime Unique Selling Point: Unique, Imaginative, ‘Charming, enchanting and richly layered this is purely delightful.’ […]

My writing

Happy New Year – 2020 News: #Writing #Sequel #Poetry #Prose

3 weeks ago 22 Comments

Happy New Year!!! After many moons I ‘m finally making progress on the second in my YA Fantasy series The Curse of Time Book 2 Golden Healer. It has been a long haul BUT I can begin to see encouraging flickers of light at the end of a very long, arduous tunnel. Writing a sequel is so hard! No, scratch […]

Photography

Colleen Chesebro’s Weekly Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge #Photoprompt #TankaTuesday #Micropoetry

1 month ago 2 Comments

This week for Colleen’s Weekly Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge there’s an awesome photo to use as inspiration, which you can see above. Image Credit: Commons: Wikipedia.ogr Hibiscus flowers bring back memories of tropical sunshine. Nowadays, I enjoy catching a glimpse of them at the Botanical Gardens in their glasshouses, this is one I photographed a while ago… My Tanka poem in […]

Poetry

Colleen’s Weekly Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge – Poet’s Choice

2 months ago 16 Comments

It’s been a while… I’ve missed writing poetry but I’ve been very busy trying to finish editing the second book in my series The Curse of Time and to be honest I’ve been struggling with it as it is a very ambitious project, especially as I work full-time. I’m getting there but still lots to do. My beta readers have […]

Poetry

Author Spotlight – Cendrine Marrouat & David Ellis #Poets #Submissions #Auroras & Blossoms Poetry Journal

2 months ago Leave a Comment

Today, it is my great pleasure to welcome not one, but two poets… Author Spotlight – Cendrine Marrouat & David Ellis Cendrine and David co-founded Auroras & Blossoms Poetry Journal, a magazine that promotes inspirational and uplifting poetry no matter the topic. They accept everyone, as long as they have something positive to say in their poetry. They published the […]

Poetry

COLLEEN’S 2019 WEEKLY #TANKA TUESDAY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 146 #SYNONYMSONLY

September 29, 2019 11 Comments

Red, devil’s needle, Or luck bringer with kind eyes? Ancient, sweet fellow, Sacred magic bestower, Change tumbling on fragile wings. I added the last line as the dragonfly has such a short life like the butterfly and change can be fragile unless we encourage and nurture it and learn to be our better self. This is my contribution […]

Anthology

Ghostly Romance Anthology Volume 1 – Plaisted Publishing House

September 22, 2019 4 Comments

I’m thrilled to be part of the latest anthology from Plaisted Publishing House. Ghostly Romance Volume 1 – Media Kit Have you lost a loved one? Do you see or hear them? This Anthology gives you a selection of Short Stories plus two poems about the ghosts who can’t move on, be it due to love or hate. From the Highlands […]

Poetry

Colleen’s 2019 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge #Poet’sChoice #Etheree #Trees #Photography #Bookish

September 7, 2019 8 Comments

I love trees, and enjoy my wanders in the Cambridge Botanical Gardens which is home to many champion trees. Just recently I came upon this beautiful Paperbark Maple, such a find for an author: a tree that peels it bark, like the well-worn pages of a book that has been read many times! So, I decided to grace […]

Poetry

COLLEEN’S 2019 WEEKLY #TANKA TUESDAY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 141 #PHOTOPROMPT

August 23, 2019 10 Comments

A Shadorma… Internet Stalker, killer words Trapping me. No message Of kind words roaming the seas, Only threats uncorked. Check out Colleen’s poetry prompt: Colleen’s 2019 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 141 #PhotoPrompt Buy Book: myBook.to/TheCurseofTime Social Media Links Authors Website: https://mjmallon.com Collaborative Blog: https://sistersofthefey.wordpress.com Twitter: @Marjorie_Mallon and @curseof_time #ABRSC: Authors Bloggers Rainbow Support Club on Facebook Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17064826.M_J_Mallon Facebook: […]

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

July 30, 2019 10 Comments

“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 […]