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Tanka Tuesday 26.3.24, Art Diaries : The girl in the yellow dress

This week for the tanka tuesday challenge hosted by Colleen Chesebro, I’m writing a series of tanka. The weather is cool in Dhaka. It’s been raining and we’ve had thunderstorms, lightning and short bursts of rain. I used the kigo word ‘Birds enter clouds’. ‘Tranquil Dawn’ and ‘Holi’ which is the festival of colors celebrated by Hindus to celebrate Spring and is symbolic of the victory of good…

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Sunrise

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Oasis – Haiku 2024 #TankaTuesday; 24 Seasons Challenge – Suzette B's Blog

Lemon balm plant and blossoms. Image credit: flockine | Pixabay liquid lemon balm rosemary sage coolers oasis in a glass  Source: Oasis – Haiku 2024 #TankaTuesday; 24 Seasons Challenge – Suzette B’s Blog

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Our Contribution to Colleen's Japanese Poetry Challenge: Wintering Insects Awake (March 5 – 19) Keichitsu 啓蟄 #Haiku #Poetry

This is the first week of the Japanese Season: Wintering Insects Awake (March 5 – 19) Keichitsu 啓蟄 Welcome to the 24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry challenge for #TankaTuesday! Gentle spring rain dropped the first butterfly of spring did sit soft on my hand… ©AnitaDawes2024

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Robbie’s Inspiration: Tanka Tuesday, poems and pictures #poetry #photography #TankaTuesday

Colleen’s latest challenge revolves around kigo words. You can join in here: https://tankatuesday.com/2024/01/23/24-seasons-syllabic-poetry-challenge-no-18-1-23-24-part-i-deep-cold-january-20-february-2-daikan-%E5%A4%A7%E5%AF%92/. I have adapted this into kigo poems where the entire poem represents a specific moment in our season. I am particularly enchanted with personifying flowers at the…

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Robbie’s Inspiration – Tanka Tuesday, Childhood Perspectives #tankatuesday #poetry

These are my contributions to Colleen’s challenges for the past two weeks. I don’t think they are exactly right, but I like them so here they are. Unnatural curls – a shadorma prose poem When I was a little girl and my sister, Catherine, was a very little girl, my hair was as straight as […]Robbie’s Inspiration – Tanka Tuesday, Childhood Perspectives #tankatuesday #poetry

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Columbia River – #TankaTuesday

Fall-painted rivertwin to dawn’s ruddy sunrisesilhouettes of shorerise into basalt canyons *** A cacophony of geesemigrate south on blue waterswhere …Columbia River – #TankaTuesday

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Three Sisters, Mushrooms, and Plunder – #TankaTuesday

Three Sisters, Mushrooms, and Plunder – #TankaTuesday

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Colors Unfettered #tankatuesday

Boughton, George Henry; The Lady of the Snows; Walker Art Gallery; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/the-lady-of-the-snows-97671 Colors Unfettered demur flowers bloom a tapestry stitched with spring colors unfettered on her chilly weather walks old man winter cedes the day It felt marvelous to write poetry once again for Colleen’s #TankaTuesday after months of absence. I love these Ekphrastic…

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Dhaka Diaries : Tanka Tuesday, Art of the week, Thankful Thursday

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Future lawns

In the Mow/Don’t Mow -Native/Invasive Plants debates, I’m usually on the side of the weeds and bees. Maybe it was those childhood days of kneeling on a hot sidewalk (I’m allergic to grass) shaping straight lines with a short-handled edger that looked like a pizza cutter.Last night I dreamed I was lost outside in the full eclipse, tripping over untilled soil to grope my way home. As much as I…

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Saffron – Haiku 2024 #TankaTuesday

Wind in trees shake — saffron and nutmeg crayons ‘Fall’ out of the box Kigo phrase: wind in trees In response to Colleen Chesebro’s TankaTuesday 24 …Saffron – Haiku 2024 #TankaTuesday

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Still Silent... #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry #Rainbow #Memories

Image by Kanenori from Pixabay ~ Poetry by A Dawes #TankaTuesday Weekly #Poetry Challenge No. 336, 9/5/23: Synonyms Only ~ Quiet & Seek

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Impressions of Spring #tankatuesday

Le Jardin de l’artiste à Giverny by Claude MonetEnglish: The Artist’s Garden at Giverny, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Artist%27s_Garden_at_Giverny Impressions of Spring beyond March’s windowlimbs bare weathered boneshoary fingers splayed in grim supplicationfor an hour’s sun-showerwhere only moss grows last year’s papery stalkslie swathed in brown leavesthe soggy gray detritus of iriseswhere…

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The Lady of the Snows #Ekphrastic #Poetry

This week Colleen ‘s #TankaTuesday challenge explores Ekphrastic poetry, inspired by the work of art. We have the freedom to write free verse but then write one syllabic poem too. The Lady of the Snows Each morning when eastern rim glows pink, the lady of snow spreads her mittened hands, cedes her power and walks across the river, […]The Lady of the Snows #Ekphrastic #Poetry

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Another rainy day –  Senryū

a grey day mizzly daily attire irksome task rain slicker stylish candle burns slowly sky water taps my window comfort tea brewing #TankaTuesday …Another rainy day –  Senryū