liliesnot so fragileshow beauty unsurpassedfragrance in valleys of humangoodness Tanka Tuesday Weekly Prompt The story behind the picture inspires more than the image.
Lilies
Anti-Gods
no musicsongs of silence rocksleepy birdsflap their wingsEarth prepares to welcome GodAnother day calls followed bydark intensityfood for thoughthope, despairwalk hand-in-hand, antigodscrowd grey horizons welcome themthey are all you haveclouds swarmingdroopy sunsunflowers overpoweredsway directionless giant feetof technology-expand forlifetimes spentenslaving minds to machinesGod’s back in heaven Tanka Tuesday Weekly Prompt
Sultriness beckons
blazing sunevaporatingwet riverspeaceful dayssultry climes scare residentslong, hot days ahead Tanka Tuesday Weekly Prompt
Paint your mental stories
palette knife or strokes of a brushpaint images of freshness lushimaginationdriving creationdreams come true, in a rush Form - Clogyrnach stanzaic, written in any number of quintets, combining a cyhydedd fer *(a rhymed couplet of 8 syllable lines) and a tercet of two 5 syllable lines followed by one 6 syllable line of 2 equal parts, 3 … Continue reading Paint your mental stories
Leaps and Bounds
lush growth of fur on tiny bodiestickling my heart, making me laughyou just leapt into my life-mischief personified-curiosityfor all corners-you know notyou are-love Chosen syllabic form is Nonet Synonyms spring --- leap green --- lush Tanka Tuesday Weekly Prompt
Enriched
running overmelding into others-surfacescolors, emotions-leave itenriched, unmerged Alliterisen Alliterisen is as follows: 1st line- x syllables2nd line- x+2 syllables3rd line- x-1 syllables4th line- (x+2)-1 syllables5th line- x-2 syllables6th line- (x+2)-2 syllables Written for Colleen's Tanka Tuesday Weekly Prompt
Naga Chilly
hooked by uncertaintyshe is hot, she's spicyeyes shut- just taste, don't see-she shocks, she numbs bright red naga chillycompels cooks to sweetenfor palates unbeaten-balanced dishes Chosen form is Abhanga The Abhanga is: stanzaic, written in any number of quatrains (4 line stanzas). syllabic, 6/6/6/4 syllables each rhymed L2 and L3 rhyme. Often internal rhyme is employed. End … Continue reading Naga Chilly
War
what happens there on lazy afternoonsshe sees storms swirling in her cup of teawar beckoned, and the soldier left with glee a soldier's wife counts days, then the moonssatiny comfort does not count as boon she hears bombs explode, but no one agrees-a broken plane just landed on the tree she hides between notes as … Continue reading War
Business
The chosen form is American Sentence American Sentence: Invented by Allen Ginsberg.An American haiku variation. 17 syllables written in a sentence.Any topic. She transmutes dreams, turns them over to the sales department for profits. Written for Tanka Tuesday Weekly Prompt Synonyms used Change - transmute Grow - turn over
Concealed
it's a rose alright…for what petals represent-love, hope or beautymy finger bleeds to remindof thorny beds it sleeps on-fights ephemerality Tanka Tuesday Weekly Prompt
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