#5lines - Verses and Hues

02 Jun

Tanka: Placid Ocean

summer afternoon waves quietly touching shore teasing leisurely savouring tranquility weary of belligerence

#5lines, #belligerence, #micropoetry, #nature, #ocean, #peace, #placid, #quiet, #sea, #shore, #silence, #summer, #tanka, #tranquility

19 May

My hands are trembling. My body quivers. But my eyes are focused at the birds soaring in the sky. I feel butterflies in my stomach as someone tightens the belts that have captivated my body. Dozens of thick ropes...

#5lines, #allure, #clouds, #Colleen’s Weekly, #dream, #experience, #float, #fly, #haibun, #horizon, #life, #micropoetry, #nature, #paragliding, #parasailing, #poetrychallenge, #power, #soar, #tanka, #wind

05 May

Lead and Save

The post follows the prompts shared by Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge#32. The challenge is to use the words “lead” and “save” or their synonyms in a haiku/ tanka/ haibun. I have written a haiku with “lead” and “save” and a tanka...

#5lines, #God, #haiku, #lead, #liberate, #micropoetry, #nature, #peace, #poetrychallenge, #save, #tanka

28 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 28: Time

I am not following the NaPoWriMo prompt today as I am travelling. Here is my Tanka titled “Time” for today. Struggles shadowed life learned opined “It’s bad time” so I changed old watch time stood still without impact is...

#5lines, #micropoetry, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2017, #poetrychallenge, #tanka, #time, #watch

26 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 26: Tanka-Truth or lie

I am not following the NaPoWriMo prompt today. Here’s a Tanka for today: Stranded at cross-roads truth entails a slow poison deceit means drowning in ocean of my own blood which path I stride for solace

#5lines, #Lie, #micropoetry, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2017, #poetrychallenge, #solace, #stranded, #tanka, #truth

23 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 23: Elevenie

The prompt for Day Twenty-Three of NaPoWriMo is to write a double elevenie. What’s that? Well, an elevenie is an eleven-word poem of five lines, with each line performing a specific task in the poem. The first line is one...

#5lines, #elevenie, #invincible, #micropoetry, #music, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2017, #poetrychallenge, #rejuvenate, #salvation, #words

22 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 22: Earth

The NaPoWriMo prompt for today is to write a georgic in honour of Earth Day. Georgic is a poem dealing with practical aspects of agriculture and rural affairs. I have not written a georgic but on the eve of Earth Day, I have written...

#5lines, #earth, #earth day, #earthday, #magic, #micropoetry, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2017, #poetrychallenge, #tanka, #wish

11 Apr

NaPoWrimo Day 11: Tanka

Here’s another Tanka inspired by Weekly Tanka Challenge – Week 39 with prompt “Old & New” that serves my second submission for NaPoWriMo Day 11 old rules of new game new rules of the same old game some variations some sluggish...

#5lines, #game, #micropoetry, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2017, #new, #old, #past, #poetrychallenge, #tanka, #weeklytankachallenge -39

11 Apr

Tanka: Old Vs. New

old generation ardently welcomes new breed accedes hopefully a new perspective of life only to be ostracized Inspired by the prompt “Old and New” of Weekly Tanka Challenge #39. This is also my submission towards Day 11...

#5lines, #generation, #life, #micropoetry, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2017, #new, #old, #perspective, #poetrychallenge, #tanka, #weeklytankachallenge -39

06 Apr

Tanka: Flowers

efflorescence spell flowers rejoice gift of spring never wailing fall preaching to live in moment surging ahead laugh and sing This post is in response to Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge #28. The challenge is to use words “Laugh” and...

#5lines, #cry, #flowers, #inspiration, #laugh, #micropoetry, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2017, #optimism, #spring, #tanka

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