The Tanka Tuesday poetry challenge asked us to write about "dreams" this week. I wrote a tanka poem: Image by Michael Grey from Pixabay Day Dreams blue sky, cloud watching under the green canopy, opaque day dreams build poetry and story plots, fashioning magical worlds ©2021 Colleen M. Chesebro The tanka is one of the … Continue reading “Day Dreams,” #tanka
Month: February 2021
carrotranch.com The Carrot Ranch February 18, 2021, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story where a character is in the right place at the right time. It may be a cause for celebration! Go where the prompt leads! Respond by February 23, 2021, to be included in the compilation. Pu-Chai “How much is … Continue reading “Pu-Chai,” Flash Fiction
Frank Tassone is buried in three feet of snow! For his Haikai challenge #177, this week he asks us to write our favorite haikai poem (haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, haiga, renga, etc.) alluding to either: Still Cold (yokan)/New Year (Shinnen)Mardi Gras/Ash Wednesday “Still Cold,” haiku bright, blinding snowlight luminous snowflake crystals crunching tires, still cold … Continue reading “Still Cold (Yokan)” haiku
This week, the Tanka Tuesday Ekphrastic poetry challenge asked us to write our poetry using the psychology of color. We can take the image at face value, or choose a specific color in the rainbow umbrella to write about, or we can write about the lack of color. However, we interpret this image is up … Continue reading “At the Precipice,” #BadgerHexastich, #PhotoPrompt