Colleen’s 2020 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Etheree #Poetry Challenge No. 162, #ThemePrompt The Circle Of Life

It’s #TankaTuesday, everyone!

It’s the fourth week of the month, which means I’ll pick a theme for you to write about for this month. On the Monday before the next challenge, I’ll select someone to choose next month’s theme.

This month’s theme is:

“The Circle of Life”

Life
Begins
With nothing
Just a body
But accumulates
Many things over time
Health, wealth, knowledge, family
With time, it all disappears
And what's left? A husk. Just a body
So, as it begins, life ends with nothing.

Ritu 2020

29 Comments (+add yours?)

  1. Jennie
    Feb 03, 2020 @ 13:41:26

    A full circle.

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  2. judeitakali
    Jan 31, 2020 @ 07:18:48

    loved reading this and the “just a body” part was the icing

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  3. tracikenworth
    Jan 31, 2020 @ 01:05:08

    Reblogged this on Where Genres Collide Traci Kenworth YA Author & Book Blogger and commented:

    Deep, Ritu!

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  4. Rebecca Moon Ruark
    Jan 30, 2020 @ 13:43:40

    Lovely, Ritu. I love the circular nature of your poem–so very true. I often say, we are born alone and die alone, which can seem depressing but it is also somehow comforting–that cycle each of us is a part of.

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  5. thereluctantpoet
    Jan 29, 2020 @ 22:29:45

    Wise and true, Ritu!!!
    xoxo

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  6. Shivangi
    Jan 29, 2020 @ 18:07:52

    Lovely, insightful!

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  7. Marje @ Kyrosmagica
    Jan 29, 2020 @ 07:28:27

    Oh I find this sad Ritu. Good one but sad.

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  8. Annette Rochelle Aben
    Jan 29, 2020 @ 03:21:24

    Full and wonderful

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  9. Elizabeth
    Jan 29, 2020 @ 00:55:04

    So true!

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  10. Colleen M. Chesebro
    Jan 28, 2020 @ 23:13:07

    Now that is astute! Don’t they always say something like, “from wence we came, we return to the earth?” Love it, Sis. ❤

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  11. willowdot21
    Jan 28, 2020 @ 22:26:44

    Beautiful and True Sis 💜

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