Animal love

David from skepticskaddish.com inspired me to try the Cleave format. I've done two tankas instead of two shadormas. You can read it as two separate tankas placed vertically, or a single poem left to right. Written for What do You See hosted by Sadje

Handshake

The chosen format is Eight-ette. Eight-ette: 8 lines.Syllable Count: 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8Rhyme Scheme: a-b-a-b-c-d-c-d or  a-a-b-b-c-c-d-d.Display Centered Written for MTB hosted by Laura Bloomsbury shakehands -wakefor partingever lasting cancel the sunriseall that's hopeful and wiseour emotional cold climesvows hold not in uncertain times

Lessons from nature

The form chosen is Alphabet Haiku for Tanka Tuesday Poetry Prompt Modern haiku form created by  Beatrice Evans, aka Ronnica at AllpoetryIt requires only strict 5/7/5 syllable construction.It is formulistic, with all words beginning with the same letter.There is no requirement for aha moment and punctuation and metaphor and photos are permitted. nature nominatesnewbies - no nagging … Continue reading Lessons from nature

Un-dreamt

expectations fleepainted eggshells replace hopeI don't know how, whendreams fly out to leave behindfutures not woven by me Written for What Do You See by Sadje

Terminal

social fabrics fightfor survival under strainvested interestsrule the world - using algosto shape mind machinationsbreathless is reason -leaving Written for Moonwashed Weekly Challenge - Breathless

Nature

The form of poetry chosen is Brevette The Brevette, created by Emily Romano consists of a subject (noun), verb, and object (noun), in this exact order.    The verb should show an ongoing action. This is done by spacing out the letters in the verb. There are only 3 words in the poem, giving it the title Brevette. … Continue reading Nature

Infinity

exploreinfinityprops support, yet leave youprecarious - in ether orwater? your ownlimitationsinstill preprogrammed fearunknown is a deep abyss - findit now get ridof old mindsetsopportunity callsit's your chance to show a world - don'tlose it Written for Photo Challenge on MLMM

Hush the soundless

See how Eugenia's judicious choice of words increases the impact multi-X a moment’s glance led to ungathered finalities Read more in her response to RXC#243 https://amanpan.com/2022/08/11/hush-the-soundless/