Tanka Tuesday

Hi, for this week’s Tanka Tuesday, Colleen has given us the beautiful painting above by Claude Monet circa 1900 of irises, part of his vast gardens at Giverny. We are to use this as inspiration for our ekphrastic syllabic poem, https://wordcraftpoetry.com/2023/03/21/tankatuesday-ekphrastic-poetry-challenge-no-312/ Monet is a beautiful artist and the leading French impressionist landscape painter, you can

Tanka Tuesday Prompt

For this week’s Tanka Tuesday, Colleen Chesebro encourages us to try writing senryū poetry, a Japanese form similar to haiku: three lines with a short-long-short syllable count up to 17 syllables. It’s a poem with the ‘human’ at its centre as opposed to nature. Thanks for looking ❤

Tanka Tuesday

Hi, it’s Tanka Tuesday and we have been given the beautiful photo above by Terri Webster Shrandt, posted by Colleen for our inspiration https://wordcraftpoetry.com/2023/01/10/tankatuesday-weekly-poetry-challenge-no-302-1-10-23/

Tanka Tuesday

Happy new year! this is our first poetry challenge of 2023 on Tanka Tuesday, to write a poem by selecting synonyms for the two words ‘New & Experience’ here we go 🙂

Tanka Tuesday

This weeks prompt is to write a Japanese Kouta 小唄 (short song) that has several variations, though always short. The theme should reflect ordinary life and often uses colloquialisms and onomatopoeia, most popular are love songs. The elements of Kouta are: 4 lines. (occasionally 5); a stand alone poem but can be accompanied by other

Tanka Tuesday

Hi today on Tanka Tuesday it’s the #TastetheRainbow challenge, where we are encouraged to write in the form of choice, a poem which includes a colour. https://wordcraftpoetry.com/2022/11/01/tankatuesday-weekly-poetry-challenge-no-296-11-1-22-tastetherainbow-color-poetry/. My chosen form is the haiku and the colour ‘purple’, thanks for looking 🙂 https://ko-fi.com/aj335577

A Sprinkle of Magic…

Hi, it’s Tanka Tuesday time – #TankaTuesday poetry challenge! Anita Dawes has selected this month’s theme as 🔮 What You Wish For? 🔮. I have chosen to write an Abhanga poem, they have a title and are written in any number of 4-line stanzas, syllables 6-6-6-4 each, the rhyme scheme is abbc. Here is my