descriptive writing course
WRITING FROM THE FIVE SENSES
Online creative writing course starts 4/29, EDT. Whether you write poetry, fiction or nonfiction, you can dramatically improve your writing by using concrete, sensory words. lexingtoncommunityed.org/class/writin...
#writing #edusky #amwriting #writingcommunity #sensewrds
APOLOGIES TO ROBERT FROST TANKA
The road less traveled
that made such difference: Flat
tire. Car sunk in mire.
No one here. Need push, need jack.
Have to walk all the way back.
#robertfrost #poetry #poetrycommunity #literature #edusky #authors #iteachenglish #litthings #literaturesky #poets
DODOITSU
If I were a plant I'd be
flowering - a peony
with ruffled red petticoats,
flirting with the sun.
DODOITSU- Japanese form of 4 lines, 7-7-7-5 syllables.
I teach it in my online short-form poetry course.
#micropoetry #poetry #poetrycommunity #inkmine #blueskypoets #flowers #nature
THOREAU & THE LANGUAGE OF TREES
Online community ed course starts April 23 6:45pm EDT lexingtoncommunityed.org/class/hdtt/
Read, discuss, observe, experience, create & share your reflections on trees as inspired by Thoreau.
#thoreau #trees #nature #spring #inspiration #edusky #literature #edusky
Robert Frost
ROBERT FROST POETRY MINI-COURSE, ZOOM
Starts Tues April 28, 6:45PM EDT (not AM)
Read, learn about, discuss, share reactions to 12-15 of Frost's poems.
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#robertfrost #poetry #literature #poetrycommunity #edusky #authors #litthings #iteachenglish
On Patriot's Day holiday in Massachusetts
PATRIOT’S DAY TANKA
In Menotomy
seventeen seventy five,
the first real battle —
Revolutionary War
troops marching back from Concord.
One of the first battles occurred here in Arlington (Menotomy).
#tanka #tankapoem #haiku #haikupoem #senryu #poetry
HAIKU
Eve said to Adam:
"Let’s taste the fruit and know truth."
He ate, and blamed Eve.
#7syllablesentence taste #micropoetry #poetry #haiku
#haikupoem #3lines #senryu #writing #poetrycommunity
#amwriting #writing #Bible #Genesis #Eve
TANKA
Photosynthesis:
to green leaves’ chlorophyll add
co2, water –
create sugar, oxygen.
Nature spinning straw to gold.
#haikuchallenge nature #tanka #tankapoem #haiku #3lines
#senryu #poetry #micropoetry #poetrycommunity #spring #blueskypoets #nature
TANKA (KYOKA)
This is the domain
of the new United States
Poetry Service.
Please do not stamp on the poems,
but let them envelope you.
#tanka #tankapoem #haiku #senryu #3lines #micropoetry
#poetry #poetrycommunity #kyoka #blueskypoets #humor
Ah ha! You must be another cockeyed optimist. It's a struggle sometimes to stay on the earth plane!
HAIKU
Cockeyed optimist —
standing upside down, you plant
your feet on the sky.
#2wordprompt plant #haiku #haikusaturday #haikupoem
#3lines #micropoetry #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets
HAIKU
Streaming golden light:
I taste the flavor of dawn.
All senses awake!
#7syllablesentence taste #haiku #haikusaturday #haikupoem #senryu #3lines #micropoetry #poetry
#poetrycommunity #nature #spring
If like me, you‘re reading this wiping away tears right now, you should know that my friend Dorothy and the Reteti team need donations to do their work.
I’ve been an adoptive parent of Long’uro since day 1 so perhaps I’m biased but everything about it is ❤️
www.reteti.org/celebrate-lo...
Thank you
earth, texas sign
TANKA
Enter Earth, Texas.
You’ll see the street sign, “Welcome
to Earth. As you leave,
the sign, “Leaving Earth.” You don’t
need to visit outer space.
#tanka #tankapoem #haiku #haikusaturday #senryu
#micropoetry #poetry #inkmine #earth #texas #streetsign
#sign #humor
TANKA
I watched a baby
in a stroller kicking up
his legs in delight,
and wondered: Will you survive
and thrive in this ailing world?
#tanka #tankapoem #haiku #haikupoem #haikusaturday
#micropoetry #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets
#inkmine #poetry
My online Interfaith group read Braiding Sweetgrass last year - there's a chapter in it, as you may remember, about how each corn stalk is respectful of the other! We can surely learn from the plant and vegetable kingdom (or queendom) and some animals as well.
TANKA
How tall the corn grows,
no leaf directly over
another, each leaf
looking out for its neighbor,
unwilling to block its light.
inspired by a line in Braiding Sweetgrass
#ourpoetryX inspired #tanka #haiku #haikusaturday #senryu #micropoetry #inkmine #poetrycommunity
#nature #inspiration
TANKA
Baby elephant,
trunk torn off by hyena,
how did you survive
such a disability?
Patience, constant care and love.
PBS Nature, Becoming Elephant
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eGy...
#tanka #tankapoem #micropoetry #haiku #senryu #poetrycommunity #inkmine #elephant #animal #nature #pbs #inspiration
HAIKU
crimson petticoats
an explosion of color
my peonies bloom
#haikufeels bloom #micropoetry #haiku #haikusaturday
#haikupoem #3lines #inkmine #poetrycommunity #spring
#nature #flowers #peonies
HAIKU
waxed amaryllis
its flowers fallen, stalks pruned.
ah, it blooms again!
#haikufeels bloom #haiku #haikusaturday #senryu #poetry #micropoetry #poetrycommunity #flowers #nature #inkmine
TANKA
Some books are sparklers.
Reading, I pay attention
to each of the sparks
at least as much as the book.
All of the sparks are in me.
#2wordprompt read #tanka #tankapoem #haiku #senryu
#poetry #micropoetry #reading #literature #books #litsky
#edusky #authors #iteachEnglish
In honor of National Haiku Day....
HAIKU
The twilight years, poised
between light and dark. Above,
stars appear. The moon!
#haiku #haikupoem #3lines #senryu #poetry #poem #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets #inkmine #aging
TANKA
Give full attention
to intention, envision
in your inner eyes
your dreams manifest, alive.
Dreams you can and will fulfill.
#7syllablesentence dream #tanka #tankapoem #poetry
#haiku #senryu #inkmine #micropoetry #transformation
#motivation #inspiration #self-help #selfhelp #intention
HOW NOT TO AGE, a tanka
He was a salad
gone bad - bleeding tomatoes,
wilted lettuce browned
by time, leaking olive oil
turned rancid and vinegar
#2wordprompt leak #poetry #tanka #tankapoem #haiku
#senryu #micropoetry #poetry #poetrycommunity
A TEENAGER SPEAKS
My brakes failed, steering
wheel jammed. So what should I do
about my kar,Ma?
#WIPSnips wheel #haiku #haikupoem #senryu #3lines #micropoetry #poetry #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets
#humor #cars #teenage #karma
TANKA
A passing of clouds -
feelings, thoughts flitting across
my expansive sky.
Witness to my many selves,
I become the seeing “I”.
#dailyhaikuprompt clouds #poetry #tanka #tankapoem
#haiku #haikupoem #senryu #micropoetry #blueskypoets
#meditation #mindfulness #inspiration #spirituality
HAIKU FROM A PLANE WINDOW
Cliffs - hieroglyphs,
the mountains’ calligraphy
beneath fluff of clouds
#dailyhaikuprompt clouds #haiku #3lines #senryu #poetry
#haikupoem #micropoetry #poetrycommunity #nature #blueskypoets
APRIL TANKA
The Green Man bursting
through earth, up roots of trees, paints
glowing yellow, lime
and grass green on stem and leaf.
The world awakens to spring
#dailyhaikuprompt yellow #tanka #tankapoem #haiku
#haikupoem #micropoetry #poetry #nature #trees
#sensewrds 209 #spring
TANKA
An affirmation:
I attract all that I need,
all that will help me
contribute meaningfully
to our ailing world.
#haikufeels affirm #tanka #tankapoem #haiku #senryu
#micropoetry #poetrycommunity #inspiration #selfhelp
#self-help #affirmations #transformation #spirituality
THOREAU AND THE LANGUAGE OF TREES
Online community ed course starts April 23, (date change) 6:45pm EDT lexingtoncommunityed.org/class/hdtt/
Read, discuss, observe, experience, create, &, share your reflections on trees as inspired by Thoreau.
#thoreau #trees #nature #spring #inspiration #edusky