I love these title challenges from Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie. She asks you to make a poem or story from one of these: The Last Rose of Babylon The Underground Flamingo A Very Auspicious Accident The Eidolon […]
Daily haiku or senryu for fun
Tag: tanka
Tanka : letter
dear Hana-ogi
you studied poems, koto
what do you wish for?
calligraphy inks poems
sad life confined by beauty
tanka by M. Nakazato LaFreniere
I added about 1/3 blank area for my poem but the rest of it is an Utamaro print. My apologies to those who love Utamaro.
The original of the ukiyo-e above is by Kitagawa Utamaro from his 高名美人六家撰 (Famous Beauties from 6 Best Houses) series. At the time it was illegal to have
Tanka : strange dreams
chamomile fairy sideways granite supression farfetched autophobia layogenic bleach-haired elf transparent road disappears tanka by M. Nakazato LaFreniere Reference: Wordle #186 Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie February 25: Sea Green Color Your World Challenge Tourmaline second life photo […]
Tanka : boots
give me all your best
no lies, don’t be a-messin’
something you call love
keep playing, we’ll be burning
these boots were made for falling
tanka by M. Nakazato LaFreniere
Mandibelle16 challenged us to create something using Nancy Sinatra’s These Boots Were Made For Walking. I loved that song as a teenager — still love it. The whole tough chick story is cool. But I am also a romantic so this is the sequel because she found “a brand new box of matches.”
Tanka : amorous affections
feeling amorous? is your affections for real? love me, sick or old? you are thinking about it? bye??? we’ll always have Paris? tanka by M. Nakazato LaFreniere Reference: February 22 : Amorous Affections February Writing […]
Tanka : fairy godmother
my mind — total blank challenges and prompts — no help it’s almost midnight desperate poet cries out where’s my fairy godmother? tanka by M. Nakazato LaFreniere
tanka : profuse poems
quick words tumble out profuse flood of imagery written in margins scribbled on napkins, scrolls poems inside pyramid walls tanka by M. Nakazato LaFreniere So frustrated. Was writing a poem daily and had managed six […]
I had no inkling
Tanka : cherita
inscrutable word
prompt says write a Cherita
what the heck is that?
sounds like a cigar or drink
poem form evolved from tanka
tanka by M. Nakazato LaFreniere
once upon a time, or so the story goes
Leiana, a royal guard of the deep, doing a usual patrol
saw movement deep within a cave
of course, she had to investigate
a large pile of bones had grown out of the blue
oh dear, myriad baby krakens skittered away from mama’s provisions
cherita terbalik by M. Nakazato LaFreniere
Tanka : xaeaxed?
a study proved this
your friends have more friends than you
friendship paradox
predicts, slows epidemics
does not matter who? xaeaxed!
tanka by M. Nakazato LaFreniere