My ongoing desecration of diminutive Japanese poetry forms
Not done one of these in yonks! Let’s put that right…
This week the challenge was to use synonyms for LOOSE and TIGHT.
clothes baggy like sails
billow in wild winds of greed
tossed as left salad
in exchange for sweet, rich fare
trousers slowly strangle me
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Defiling Japanese poetry one picture at a time.
Bleak isolation
Flowery lady garden
Ever worlds apart
The stores are already filling up!
Not yet Halloween
Yet thoughts turning to Christmas
Calm yourself perhaps
A tale of fear and things that go bump bump bump in the night
Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday
This week the challenge was to use synonyms for MYSTERY and ATTRACT. I used
Erectile issues
manhood diminished. Scared and
grave, consumes Blue pills
Now can’t sleep on his stomach
Wife hangs her towels on it
Colleen’s 2019 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 119 “Mystery & Attract,” #SynonymsOnly
I so need boundaries if only so I have something to cross
Seems that it is a bit of a free for all this week and I can use whatever words I want. How curious. the limitations are usually rather liberating in an odd sort of way and complete freedom just makes me want to be even more stupid than usual.
I decided to open the nearest book and use the first word on page 58 and the last on page 101. the book was Cosmic Traitor (Perry Rhodan 26) by Kurt Brand. The words are THOUGHTS and MILKY. They made me think of an Astronaut…
Once more to the stars
mind strays to places unknown
thoughts of escaping
the shackles of gravity
and his quite annoying wife
A tale of fear and things that go bump bump bump in the night
Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday
This week the challenge was to use synonyms for AFRAID and GRAVE. I used SCARED and SERIOUS. Sorry Colleen…
Erectile issues
manhood diminished. Scared and
grave, consumes Blue pills
Now can’t sleep on his stomach
Wife hangs her towels on it
Another Tuesday challenge!
Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday
This week the challenge was to use synonyms for CHANGE and DEFY. I used REFASHION and ‘THUMB ONE’S NOSE AT’.
Refashioned, reused
inverted and repurposed
existing fluid
and thumbs her nose at the thought
of penis, now in a jar
Aah the change of seasons feels very much upon us. Time to reflect upon life stuff…
Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday
This week the challenge was to use synonyms for CHANGE and DEFY. I used TRANSFORM and DISREGARD
whilst seasons transform
time disregards status quo
forward evermore
’till they put you in a home
and the kids never visit
Another Tuesday challenge!
Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday
This week the challenge was to use synonyms for SAD and WRITE. I used MELONCHOLY and SCRIBBLES.
My melancholy.
darkness scribbles on my soul
graffiti in blood
Pfft. Sorry, only kidding
maybe a rude limerick?
It’s Monday so must mean another of Ronovan’s prompts.
All change with Donald
A Rebel without a clue
I hope he gets aids
https://ronovanwrites.com/2018/08/20/haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-215/
It’s Monday so must mean another of Ronovan’s prompts.
Things time makes precious
memories, family, laughter
…regular movements
I’m wondering if it’s a wee bit obtuse. We shall see.
Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday
This week the challenge was to use synonyms for HAPPY and MOROSE. I used CONTENT and DOUR.
uncontent wage slave
dour faced, shuffles through life
home to nagging wife
a new lease of life springs forth
new patio lifts spirits
Well that’s wholly inappropriate for any day of the week. Sorry Japan.
Desire overwhelms
sated sanity returns
puts tissues away
Well that’s wholly inappropriate for any day of the week. Sorry Japan.
Colonoscopy
If only there was a way
to cleanse the brain shit
You absolute tanka!
Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday
This week the challenge was to use synonyms for INSPIRATION and PLAN. I used STIMULUS and INTENT.
Heady, hot, beat thuds
primal stimulus released
intent, desires rage
and at the end of the night
lowers standard, desperate
I took a few liberties there but if you know it you know it and now you’re singing it.
Woke Up, outta bed
dragged a comb across my head.
Not a Beatles fan?
https://ronovanwrites.com/2018/07/16/ronovanwrites-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-210-wokeup/
My mind didn’t stray far from the obvious on this one. This one’s for you Donny.
Remember the days
when you weren’t so old and grey?
No? That cos you’re old.
https://ronovanwrites.com/2018/07/09/ronovanwrites-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-209-olddays/
Tanks a million
Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday
This week the challenge was to use synonyms for BEWITCH and TREASURE. I used CAPTIVATE and PRIZE.
Feint smile, alluring
eyes captivate, draw him in
temptations sweet prize
Door knock, stark reality
sticky magazine pages
My mind didn’t stray far from the obvious on this one. This one’s for you Donny.
Oh for the sweet chance
to see him re-united
with his dear mother
Tanks a million
Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday
This week the challenge was to use synonyms for Magic and Green. I used Enchanted and Pastoral.
Pastoral delight
enchanted billows rising
clouds swirl and mind freed
then succumbs to the munchies
eats an entire pizza
Tanks a million
Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday
This week the challenge was to use synonyms for Give and Receive. I used bestow and Welcome.
Silver falls the rain
welcome reprieve to parched land
cooling gift bestowed
heads covered people scurry
because it makes their hair curl
Let’s continue the summer theme shall we. There are some sights out there to be seen for sure.
Soaring temperatures
drunk shirtless methodone tramps
all the girls bits out
Today I did actually see what appeared to be a shirtless methadone tramp. I think he had maybe lost his shirt though or left it in a dumpster because it didn’t seem to be about his person. Curiously he also had one trouser leg rolled up to the knee whilst he wore the other in the more traditional fashion.
How do I know he was on something? Well I don’t and I might be super judgy but I think walking down the middle of the road whispering to himself whilst staring wildly at passers by was a bit of a give away.
Still, I’m sure it was lovely to feel the sun on his back as he seemed to be thoroughly enjoying the fine weather we are having.
On the matter of flesh well, you just head down to the market here and you’ll see what I am on about. Whilst I am all for body positivity whatever your shape or size that doesn’t mean I support adults wearing childrens clothes to go and eat sausage rolls on a bench outside of the bookies.
😉
Sometimes I swear he does these to intentionally bring out the worse in me…
mmmm robbery
day two of diet
would mug a child for sweeties
stab a tramp for cake
Tanks a million
Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday
This week the challenge was to use synonyms for Dry and Wet. I used Moist and Arid.
MOIST. Clammy and damp.
Dripping and saturated
wet, humid, steamy
Congrats, most cant read past MOIST
Oh, better use ARID too.
There was no way this was going to be anything other than in appropriate. I often try to be serious with these but this was too difficult to not go where I should not.
