Category Archives: Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge

Easter Secrets – #Shadorma – #poetry challenge – #Easter – #NaPoWriMo

12 Sunday Apr 2020

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Colleen’s poetry challenge for this week is Poet’s Choice. I chose to write an Easter Shadorma.


Easter morn

With smiling faces

Kiddies seek

Their treasure

No one dares tell them the truth

It is a secret

 

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!! ❤

Colleen’s 2020 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 172, #Poet’sChoice

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Into the Abyss – #haibun – #senryu – #poetry challenge

10 Friday Jan 2020

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Colleen’s poetry challenge for this week is Poet’s Choice. I chose to write a Haibun/Senryu.


Through the darkness of morning, a shrill sound breaks the silence. I am startled, groggy, finally realizing it’s the telephone ringing. I answer to hear apologies for waking me, as she rambles on about another place. She doesn’t care for where she is. She only knows she has to move.

I cannot go through this again. The last time nearly buried me. Still, I feel myself sinking further down, into that abyss, with no hope of seeing the light again.

 

Self-preservation
My anomaly exposed
Battles for the win

 

 

Colleen’s 2020 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 159, #Poet’sChoice

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Dare to Cling ~ #poetry challenge – #Tanka

12 Thursday Dec 2019

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Colleen’s poetry challenge for this week is synonyms only!  Her two words are Give and Shake.  Check out Colleen’s blog to find which forms of poetry are acceptable for this challenge.  Have fun!

Written as a Tanka, my synonyms are Abandoning and Shudder.


As winter snow falls,

I shudder in the cold air,

Abandoning warmth.

Much like dear autumn’s last leaf,

Who dares to cling too tightly.

 

Colleen’s 2019 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 157 #SynonymsOnly

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The Life of a Snowflake – #poetry challenge – #DecemberWriting

05 Thursday Dec 2019

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Crystallized

A raindrop, frozen

Within time

Warms the soul

Though its delicate beauty

Swiftly melts away

 

December Writing Prompt – The life of a snowflake
Colleen’s 2019 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 156, #Poet’sChoice

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Thankful Tidings – #DoubleEtheree – #poetry challenge

27 Wednesday Nov 2019

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Colleen’s poetry challenge for this week is synonyms only!  Her two words are End and Hurry.  Check out Colleen’s blog to find which forms of poetry are acceptable for this challenge.  Have fun!

Written as a Double Etheree, my synonyms are Fragment and Bustle.


A
Crystal
Flurries down
Rushing to meet
A man made of white.
Top hat upon his head
Eyes of coal, a carrot nose,
Mittened hands, endless snowball fights
Days of youth, returning within us.
The bustle of the holiday season.
The coming together of family,
Dearest to our hearts, celebrating
A thankfulness, many blessings
Each one, a mere fragment, of
Years gone by, call to mind
All who have gathered
Bringing with them
Tidings of
Great joy,
Love

 

Colleen’s 2019 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 155 #SynonymsOnly or #Theme-Thanksgiving

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