TJ’s Household Haiku – Rain & Shiver

27 Aug 2017 24 Comments

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TJ’s back with his haiku prompts:

Nature reserve Perth

Rain & Shiver

I went with a 3/5/3 Haiku first…

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Leaves shiver
With the weight of rain
Drops falling

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Then a tanka

Image from Pixabay

The rain falls in sheets
I’m wet and shivering
uncontrollably
Natures playing games again
Typical British summer

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And the traditional 5/7/5 English haiku

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A raindrop trickles
Sending shivers down my spine
Like your feathered touch

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Colleen’s Weekly #Poetry Challenge # 47 – #Haiku #Tanka: Shadow & Light

22 Aug 2017 24 Comments

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Colleen’s poetry challenge this week is using the words

Shadow & Light

Today I am incorporating a Tanka and a Haiku into a single poemy thing!

Never seeing light
Forever in the shadows
Feasting or darkness
Negativity can hurt
If you starve it of all light

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Keep your shadows small
Surrounding yourself with light
Make life positive

TJ’s Household Haiku – Leaf & Look

29 Jul 2017 32 Comments

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TJ’s prompts today

Leaf & Look

And/or the photo

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Off to an engagement in an hour so I can’t go mad with my haiku, but here is one, using the words.

The way I see it
We are all from the same tree
Each of us a leaf

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And a Tanka from the photo!

Standing quietly
A leaf of paper floats down
I look up, he smiles
Love letters sent from above
Italian romance starts

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Colleen’s Weekly #Poetry Challenge – #Haiku #Tanka : HEAT & CONFUSE

25 Jul 2017 32 Comments

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Colleen’s Prompt this week:

Heat & Confuse

A Tanka for all the disheartened teachers out there…

Image from Google

They turned up the heat
My to-do lists are insane!
I am so confused!
What should I concentrate on?
Ticking ‘boxes’ or children?

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And a HAiku for all you Mid-life ladies… I’m nearing there too!