#5lines - Verses and Hues

25 Nov

Tanka: Challenge

Life is a challenge It is a sprint against time To achieve your dreams You may falter but have faith Each morning dawns rays of hope The post follows the prompt words “morning” and “challenge” given by...

#5lines, #challenge, #confidence, #dawn, #dreams, #faith, #hope, #inspiration, #inspire, #life, #micropoetry, #morning, #motivation, #nature, #poem, #poetrychallenge, #success, #tanka, #thoughts, #trust, #words

13 Nov

Tanka: Dreams

dreams keep us afloat when turbulent waves of time ally wrath of fate questioning our true mettle to crack mystery of life The post follows the prompt words “mystery” and “dreams” given by Elsie for her Weekly...

#5lines, #dreams, #fate, #inspiration, #inspire, #life, #life’s lessons, #micropoetry, #motivation, #mystery, #poem, #poetrychallenge, #questions, #tanka, #thoughts, #time, #waves

12 Oct

Tanka: Dreams

dreams of yesterday glistening beauty today instilling belief I'm quilling more dreams today envisioning future bliss The post follows the prompt words “dreams” and “beauty” given by Elsie of Ramblings of a Writer for Tanka Challenge Week...

#5lines, #beauty, #belief, #dreams, #future, #inspiration, #life, #micropoetry, #motivation, #poem, #poetrychallenge, #reality, #tanka, #today, #vision, #weeklytankachallenge

30 Aug

Tanka: The Stone man

inquisitive eyes questioning my subsistence the stone man commanded to resuscitate my life to turn a new leaf of hope The post is linked to Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge # 48. The challenge is to...

#5lines, #Colleen’s Weekly, #inspiration, #introspection, #leaf, #life, #micropoetry, #motivation, #nature, #poetrychallenge, #restart, #revive, #statue, #stone, #tanka, #turn

03 Aug

Tanka: Quest

the quest for beauty leads us to surmount high peaks explore hills and seas to discern nature’s whimsy to unearth it’s repertoire This post follows the prompt given by Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge# 44. The...

#5lines, #beauty, #Colleen’s Weekly, #discovery, #earth, #find, #haiku, #hunt, #micropoetry, #mountains, #nature, #oceans, #poetrychallenge, #quest, #sea, #skills, #struggle, #tanka

01 Aug

Tanka: New Moon Night

moon abandons sky petrified clouds lead the quest run helter-skelter probing stars, sparking mayhem pouring tears of grief on earth

#5lines, #beauty, #clouds, #earth, #haiku, #haiku horizons, #micropoetry, #moon, #nature, #poetrychallenge, #rain, #sky, #sparkling, #stars, #tanka

15 Jul

Tanka: Nature’s Art

whispering of wind pitter-patter of raindrops rustling of the leaves rhythm of the swaying trees melody of nature’s art This post follows the prompt words “Music” and “Art”, given by Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge#41. I...

#5lines, #art, #haiku, #melody, #micropoetry, #music, #nature, #poetrychallenge, #rain, #sound, #tanka, #trees, #wind

19 Jun

Haibun: Clouds

The sky seemed captivating, adorned with the glitterati of stars like a bride dressed in an impeccably sparkling outfit. I had been admiring the blue for hours and was eager to continue my adoration for eternity. The moving...

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11 Jun

Tanka: The Moon and my Heart

windstorm propelled my heart’s melancholy to sky the moon stands forlorn hoping stars lead jubilance in sky as well as my life This post follows the prompt words given by Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge #36....

#5lines, #Colleen’s Weekly, #happy, #heart, #jubilance, #life, #love, #melancholy, #micropoetry, #moon, #nature, #poetrychallenge, #sad, #sadness, #sky, #stars, #tanka

05 Jun

Didactic Cinquain: Love

In didactic cinquain, the first line is a one-word title, the subject of the poem; the second line is a pair of adjectives describing that title; the third line is a three-word phrase that gives more information about the...

#5lines, #affection, #bond, #cinquain, #didactic, #divine, #emotion, #feeling, #life, #love, #lust, #micropoetry, #passion

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