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Write a tanka about love – love of another or love of a place. Make us feel the emotions connected with your love. Remember the criteria for writing a good tanka posted in the Editor’s View. Competition HERE
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This week another HAIBUN journey – this time a favourite walk or this picture. Competition HERE
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“Haibun is a mix of prose poem and haiku, and although they complement each other, the haiku is not meant to be an echo of the prose poem, nor is the prose poem merely a set up for the haiku. The prose poem shouldn’t be a piece of flash fiction with a haiku attached, but [...]
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Today I want you to choose a flower and write a haiku. You might like one of your own or you might like to choose from these. Competition HERE Lily/ Pansy/ Snap Dragon
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This week we would like you to take inspiration from today’s tanka and the essay on tanka by Constance Brewer and try to write a tanka a day all this week. Then work on the best two to send to our competition.
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Have you revisited any classic images lately? Greek mythology offers many metaphors for the modern world. There are the stories of Zeus, Athena, Hermes, Apollo, Poseidon, to name only a few. There are the Roman god parallels. There are images from ancient sagas, tales of the Green Knight, legends about Robin Hood, fairy tales from [...]
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We’ve all been late for things – school, work, dinner, appointments. Usually, it’s a minor annoyance to be late. Sometimes, it’s more than that. Sometimes, being late eliminates a chance at something bigger, like love. Or survival. What were you too late for? Here are some links to poets who have tackled this topic. [...]
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Poetry is about the details. Just the right word. Just the right rhythm. Just the right image. One of my favorite things is to zero in on a detail that draws my attention and explore it, look at it from other angles to see what else I can make of it. For example, the curve [...]
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Today’s poem, Souvenir Lace by Sue Morgan, got me thinking about souvenirs in general. Souvenirs can be good or bad, simple trinkets that we’ve picked up at some roadside tourist shop or scars that we’d love to forget but know will never fade. Why do we hang onto souvenirs? Why do we claim them? What [...]
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Usually tomorrow would be the last day of February – not so this year. And the leap day is a most unusual day, for anything special that happens on that day stays in our minds and tends to be recalled every 4th year as if it were a much closer event. So for this week’s [...]
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